{"id":30351,"date":"2012-09-26T09:10:47","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T15:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/26\/election-day-starts-now.html"},"modified":"2012-09-26T09:10:47","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T15:10:47","slug":"election-day-starts-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/26\/election-day-starts-now.html","title":{"rendered":"Election Day Starts Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early voting means people begin voting this week, and a third of this year&#39;s votes are expected to be cast early and absentee. I&#39;ll be they could boost that to 100% if somehow they could promise to filter out election commercials once you voted &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/102449423618024963809'>David Kurtz<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Ftalkingpointsmemo.com%2Fimages%2Fearly-voting-graphic.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/2012.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2012\/09\/early-voting-swing-states.php'>Election Day Starts Now: In Critical Swing States, Early Voting Expected To Exceed \u201808 Levels<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWith more than one-third of the votes nationwide expected to be cast early, Mitt Romney\u2019s already shrinking window to erase President Obama\u2019s current lead in public opinion polls before Election Day i&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/ALip7dsz2ev' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early voting means people begin voting this week, and a third of this year&#39;s votes are expected to be cast early and absentee. I&#39;ll be they could boost that to 100% if somehow they could promise to filter out election commercials once you voted &#8230; Reshared post from +David Kurtz Embedded Link Election Day Starts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/26\/election-day-starts-now.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Election Day Starts Now&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30673,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/18\/theres-more-than-one-way-to-suppress-a-voter.html","url_meta":{"origin":30351,"position":0},"title":"There&#39;s more than one way to suppress a voter","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 18-Oct-12 9:07am","format":false,"excerpt":"Dragged kicking and screaming by two federal court decisions (and a rejection from SCOTUS) to reinstate rull early voting for all voters, Ohio GOP Secretary of State John Husted is playing around with the hours of early voting centers to make it more difficult to find out when voting is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7684,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/18\/voting_solution.html","url_meta":{"origin":30351,"position":1},"title":"Voting solutions","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 18-Jan-05 9:18am","format":false,"excerpt":"After writing about the prospect of consolidating\/centralizing polling places as a way to improve voting reliability, it turns out that's actually being considered. 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