{"id":22243,"date":"2011-02-10T15:02:52","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T19:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22243"},"modified":"2011-02-10T15:02:52","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T19:02:52","slug":"13-of-overseas-voters-screwed-out-of-the-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22243","title":{"rendered":"1\/3 of overseas voters screwed out of the opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/report-one-third-of-overseas-voters-couldn-t-cast-a-ballot-last-fall-1.134413#\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> reports that nearly a third of voters overseas were screwed out of their votes;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to a new survey by the Overseas Vote Foundation, about 18 percent of voters living abroad never received their absentee ballot, and nearly 13 percent did not receive the forms in time to successfully vote in the mid-term election.<\/p>\n<p>But the foundation called that encouraging. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, it would be encouraging if your only looking at year-over-year improvement, but not if you&#8217;re hoping for the law to be enforced. &#8220;Good enough for government work&#8221; is an outdated platitude. Hpw &#8217;bout government workers just do their damn jobs for a change. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stars &#038; Stripes reports that nearly a third of voters overseas were screwed out of &hellip; <a title=\"1\/3 of overseas voters screwed out of the opportunity\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22243\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1\/3 of overseas voters screwed out of the opportunity<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}