{"id":111770,"date":"2016-03-01T20:50:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T20:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/03\/01\/blah-blah-the-best-minds-of-our-generation\/"},"modified":"2016-03-01T20:50:14","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T20:50:14","slug":"blah-blah-the-best-minds-of-our-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/03\/01\/blah-blah-the-best-minds-of-our-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"blah blah, the best minds of our generation, whatever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/fizzygins.tumblr.com\/post\/140272785617\" target=\"_blank\">fizzygins<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/fizzygins.tumblr.com\/post\/139501505067\" target=\"_blank\">fizzygins<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I will start by providing a brief summary of the ensuing wall of text, in a handful of links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.canivote.org\" target=\"_blank\">canivote.org will tell you if you are all set up to vote<\/a>! <\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncsl.org\/research\/elections-and-campaigns\/absentee-and-early-voting.aspx#state\" target=\"_blank\">NCSL can tell you some stuff about absentee voting and vote by mail<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncsl.org\/research\/elections-and-campaigns\/electronic-or-online-voter-registration.aspx#Table%20of%20states%20w\/ovr\" target=\"_blank\">Many states offer online voter registration<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eac.gov\/voter_resources\/register_to_vote.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">USEAC will help you get registered in a language other than English<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockthevote.com\/voter-registration\/online-application-system\/register-before-you-are-18-rules.html\" target=\"_blank\">rockthevote can tell you if you can register to vote even if you\u2019re not quite 18 yet<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscis.gov\" target=\"_blank\">If you\u2019re a legal permanent resident, USCIS<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/immigration-law.freeadvice.com\/immigration-law\/citizenship\/us_citizen_filing_length.htm\" target=\"_blank\">might yet<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/09\/18\/us\/white-house-campaign-legal-immigrants-citizenship.html\" target=\"_blank\">be able to help you get citizenship and attendant voting rights before November<\/a>! <\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.particip8.org\/vote\/\" target=\"_blank\">Encourage other people to vote, either on your own<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockthevote.com\/get-involved\/\" target=\"_blank\">with a GOTV organization<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>\n<a>Some arguments on why to vote<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonprofitvote.org\/all-resources\/\" target=\"_blank\">Some Get Out The Vote techniques and paper printy things you can use to get out the vote with your favorite nonprofit<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsb.stanford.edu\/insights\/research-backed-ways-get-out-vote\" target=\"_blank\">Some sciencey nerd research on what GOTV techniques actually work<\/a>! <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I will paste those again at the end with a little more commentary, but first I would like to go on at some length, as I so frequently do!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a liberal. In fact, I mean, I\u2019m flaming pinko dyke scum, basically: I\u2019ve identified as a socialist since I was fourteen and I read <i>The Grapes of Wrath<\/i> and then found out that my extremely badass great-grandma, a pre-WWI non-English-speaking Jewish <i>woman<\/i>, went to college, cut off all her hair, got arrested and then tossed out of her home country for Communist agitation, and then shacked up in New Jersey with an illegal immigrant union activist and raised two children with him in sin. So. I\u2019m a liberal. That seems like a very safe statement to me, like saying\u00a0\u201cI breathe oxygen\u201d or\u00a0\u201cI dislike close-toed shoes.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The first national election I was eligible to vote in occurred in 2000. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fizzygins.tumblr.com\/post\/139501505067\/blah-blah-the-best-minds-of-our-generation\" class=\"tmblr-truncated-link read_more\" target=\"_blank\">Keep reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s Super Tuesday. If you live in <b>Alabama<\/b>, <b>Arkansas<\/b>, <b>Georgia<\/b>, <b>Massachusetts<\/b>, <b>Minnesota<\/b>, <b>Oklahoma<\/b>, <b>Tennessee<\/b>, <b>Texas<\/b>, <b>Vermont<\/b> or <b>Virginia<\/b>, your primary nominating contest is today for both Democrats and Republicans. If you\u2019re a Democrat in <b>Colorado<\/b> or <b>American Samoa<\/b> or a Republican in <b>Alaska<\/b>, your primary nominating contest is also today [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/02\/super-tuesday-2016-everything-you-need-to-know-219849\" target=\"_blank\">x<\/a>]. In addition to checking whether or not you\u2019re registered, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canivote.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">canivote.org<\/a> can also help you find your polling place.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>fizzygins: fizzygins: I will start by providing a brief summary of the ensuing wall of text, in a handful of links: canivote.org will tell you if you are all set up to vote! NCSL can tell you some stuff about absentee voting and vote by mail! Many states offer online voter registration! USEAC will help &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/03\/01\/blah-blah-the-best-minds-of-our-generation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;blah blah, the best minds of our generation, whatever&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[60,542],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}