{"id":30184,"date":"2020-05-12T16:53:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T20:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=30184"},"modified":"2020-05-12T16:53:47","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T20:53:47","slug":"vote-by-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=30184","title":{"rendered":"Vote By Mail!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/cafe\/congress-ignore-trump-gop-lies-vote-by-mail\">Did you know<\/a> that Donald Trump votes by mail? You\u2019d be forgiven if you didn\u2019t, especially if you\u2019ve read any of his error-ridden tweets or watched his unhinged briefings trashing the practice.<\/p>\n<p>Vice President Mike Pence also votes by mail. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has voted by mail for the last 15 years. Other senior members of the Trump administration, like Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, cast their ballots by mail, too.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, for weeks, Trump has used the White House podium to denigrate the very practice he\u2019s been taking advantage of, and he\u2019s deployed his Republican cronies to spread mail in voting conspiracies to the public. <\/p>\n<p>...<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s called voting by mail \u201ccorrupt\u201d while the Republican National Committee sent mailers to conservative voters in Pennsylvania urging them to send in their mail-in ballot and saying that \u201cvoting by mail is an easy, convenient and secure way to cast your ballot.\u201d And those mailers were sent the same week that RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel penned an op-ed pushing the widely discredited claim that mail-in voting is akin to ballot harvesting. Even this weekend he went so far as to call for ballots cast by mail to be thrown out after California implemented mail-in voting statewide last week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well yeah. It's <a href=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?page_id=18788\">The Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that Donald Trump votes by mail? You\u2019d be forgiven if you didn\u2019t, especially if you\u2019ve read any of his error-ridden tweets or watched his unhinged briefings trashing the practice. Vice President Mike Pence also votes by mail. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has voted by mail for the last 15 years. Other senior [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30184"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30186,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30184\/revisions\/30186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}