{"id":140,"date":"2005-09-27T09:25:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-27T09:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/boston\/number_31.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T05:00:00","slug":"number_31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2005\/09\/27\/number_31","title":{"rendered":"Number 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I voted this morning in the Boston Primary Election. We have a semi-old-fashioned &#8220;fill in the box on the ballot card&#8221; voting system that worked perfectly well. It turns out I was the 31st voter today for my precinct, which means either I got up pretty early or there aren&#8217;t that many people voting in the primary. <\/p>\n<p> As I approached the polling location, I was accosted by supporters of about six or seven candidates, making a last minute pitch for their guy (I didn&#8217;t see anyone lobbying for the female candidates, unfortunately). I have some vague recollection about laws restricting lobbying near the vooting booth, but apparently in boston it&#8217;s okay up to about 3 inches from the entrance to the building. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robconsalvo.com\/\">Rob Consalvo<\/a>, our district councilor, was also handing out pens by the polling place, although there is no primary election for his seat. I asked him if he was endorsing anyone, and he said, &#8220;officially, no,&#8221; but then told me everyone he liked&#8230; which ended up being a good deal more than you can actually vote for. <\/p>\n<p> The most moving plea was from an older lady: &#8220;Vote for my son, Ed Flynn, he&#8217;s a veteran!&#8221; (Ed Flynn is one of the few conservatives in the race. He also has no website.) I told her I would, but I lied. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I voted this morning in the Boston Primary Election. We have a semi-old-fashioned &#8220;fill in the box on the ballot card&#8221; voting system that worked perfectly well. It turns out I was the 31st voter today for my precinct, which means either I got up pretty early or there aren&#8217;t that many people voting in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}