{"id":17747,"date":"2016-11-04T18:53:46","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T22:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=17747"},"modified":"2016-11-04T18:53:46","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T22:53:46","slug":"voted-along-with-many-others-on-last-day-of-early-voting-2016-11-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/voted-along-with-many-others-on-last-day-of-early-voting-2016-11-04.html","title":{"rendered":"Voted, along with many others on last day of early voting 2016-11-04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI voted early at the Lowndes County Board of Elections.<br \/>\nTuesday November 8th precincts will be open for Election Day 2016.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%\">\n<a title=\"Lots of voters\" href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?attachment_id=17743\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none\" id=\"17746\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" alt=\"Lots of voters\" src=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/cc768aee86520a5020a8f67633916755.jpg\"><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe County Commission staff didn&#8217;t manage to get its referendum in on time<br \/>\nabout<!--more--><\/p>\n<p> changing Tax Commissioners from elected to appointed,<br \/>\nso everybody had to vote <em><strong>twice<\/strong><\/em>.<br \/>\nThey had a second set of voting machines set up in the back office,<br \/>\nwith double election officials, double poll watchers, and the same will be<br \/>\nrequired at all precincts Tuesday, so double the cost to the<br \/>\nLowndes County taxpayers for this whole election.<\/p>\n<p>\n -jsq\n<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align:center;font-style:italic\"><p>Investigative reporting costs money, for open records requests, copying, web hosting, gasoline, and cameras, and with sufficient funds we can pay students to do further research.  You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/donate\">donate to LAKE today<\/a>!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I voted early at the Lowndes County Board of Elections. Tuesday November 8th precincts will be open for Election Day 2016. The County Commission staff didn&#8217;t manage to get its referendum in on time about<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,49,88],"tags":[1484,8701,8702,12,7,6],"class_list":["post-17747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-elections","category-lowndes-county-commission","tag-election","tag-georgia","tag-lake","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-valdosta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17749,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17747\/revisions\/17749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}