{"id":29958,"date":"2020-08-03T08:57:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T13:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=29958"},"modified":"2020-08-03T08:57:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T13:57:11","slug":"co-op-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/08\/03\/co-op-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"Co-Op Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Benen is worried<\/a> about November 3rd mail-in voting:<\/p>\n

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Much of the country is also dealing with\u00a0a shortage of poll workers<\/a>, especially\u00a0among seniors<\/a>\u00a0who are acutely at risk for the coronavirus. What’s more, because so many voters are unfamiliar with the vote-by-mail process, there’s\u00a0a very real threat<\/a>\u00a0of widespread errors, leading to ballots that go uncounted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It seems to me this is an opportunity for the non-partisan organizations to step in and help. Gather up all these seniors that are hesitant concerning mail-in ballots into a convenient room, add an expert, and have said expert lead them through the process, step by step. It doesn’t matter if the seniors are for Trump or Biden, just help them through verbal instruction.<\/p>\n

When everyone’s done and has their sealed envelope ready for the mailman, go to the nearest mail slot or blue box[1] and each voter puts it in. The expert doesn’t see who voted how, the voters, being properly socially distanced, hopefully didn’t try to copy answers, and all’s well.<\/p>\n

A chance to perform a civic duty, it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steve Benen is worried about November 3rd mail-in voting: Much of the country is also dealing with\u00a0a shortage of poll workers, especially\u00a0among seniors\u00a0who are acutely at risk for the coronavirus. What’s more, because so many voters are unfamiliar with the vote-by-mail process, there’s\u00a0a very real threat\u00a0of widespread errors, leading to \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29959,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29958\/revisions\/29959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}