{"id":14533,"date":"2026-09-05T10:55:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T15:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=14533"},"modified":"2026-09-05T10:55:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T15:55:46","slug":"this-coming-election-day-if-we-have-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/14533","title":{"rendered":"This Coming Election Day&#8230;If We Have One&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;is going to be a walk through hell. This from a Facebook page I follow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14534\" src=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/trumpatwarwithvoters.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/trumpatwarwithvoters.jpg 516w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/trumpatwarwithvoters-262x300.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was planning on taking a road trip to Oceano right after retiring, then I remembered we have an election coming, and I will walk through fire if I have to so I can cast my vote. I&#8217;ve been getting the Maryland mail in ballot ever since COVID but I don&#8217;t need to mail it back as there is a convenient drop box not far from the house. But given how badly Trump and the republicans want to screw up the mid terms (if we even have them) I will stand in line at my polling place if need be to cast a vote.<\/p>\n<p>Which means no California trip until after the election, and maybe even not then depending on the mood of the middle part of the county I&#8217;d have to drive across with my Maryland plates afterward. We shall see.<\/p>\n<p>But, 1) use the drop box or 2) if Trump&#8217;s USPS won&#8217;t send Maryland it&#8217;s paper ballots, I&#8217;ll vote in person. Early if I can, if it&#8217;s still allowed, or on election day if that&#8217;s what has to be.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone needs to plan ahead for this one. Consider every possible way they can screw it up and how you will work around it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;is going to be a walk through hell. This from a Facebook page I follow&#8230; I was planning on taking a road trip to Oceano right after retiring, then I remembered we have an election coming, and I will walk through fire if I have to so I can cast my vote. I&#8217;ve been getting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[78],"class_list":["post-14533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-the-struggle-for-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14535,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14533\/revisions\/14535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}