{"id":1825,"date":"2026-03-11T08:15:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T15:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/?p=1825"},"modified":"2026-03-11T08:15:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T15:15:21","slug":"voting-day-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2026\/03\/voting-day-2026","title":{"rendered":"Voting Day 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I was correct, Saturday was the most-attended Town Meeting in a long time. I worked the polls at Voting Day, telling people how to put their ballot into the tabulator for six hours. It’s repetitive work, sort of calming really. You get to see everyone in town after a long snowy winter and while I wouldn’t call it fun exactly, I do enjoy it. My kid ballots (above) were a hit. There will be a write-up of the results in the newspaper this week because it’s that kind of town. It’s really the first election in a while where things just worked. No major “wrinkles to iron out” for next year. <\/p>\n

I stayed to count the votes (one of the two candidates I was supporting won, the police ballot I was not supporting also won, the library budget did not pass but that was what we were hoping for) and then headed home full of free vote-counter pizza with my social batteries recharged. Already scheming for what we want to do next year. Here is a pretty small set of photos of the two days, since I was super busy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was correct, Saturday was the most-attended Town Meeting in a long time. I worked the polls at Voting Day, telling people how to put their ballot into the tabulator for six hours. It’s repetitive work, sort of calming really. You get to see everyone in town after a long snowy winter and while I […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[305,348,672],"class_list":["post-1825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","tag-elections","tag-tmdvt","tag-voting","h-entry","hentry"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1830,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions\/1830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}