{"id":60,"date":"2020-04-27T06:36:42","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T06:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimrobison.org\/jimwp\/blog\/2020\/04\/27\/sign-the-petition-we-need-vote-by-mail-for-all\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T06:36:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T06:36:42","slug":"sign-the-petition-we-need-vote-by-mail-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimrobison.org\/jimwp\/blog\/2020\/04\/27\/sign-the-petition-we-need-vote-by-mail-for-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Sign the petition: We need vote by mail for all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump votes by mail.  He did in 2018 in the New York election.  And he did it earlier this spring in the Florida primary election (after he &#8220;moved&#8221; to the Sunshine State.)<\/p>\n<p>But now he claims that voting by mail causes fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Right here in Oregon, we know Trump&#8217;s just plain wrong. Vote by mail is easy, it&#8217;s convenient, it&#8217;s secure, and it makes our democracy accessible to more people. <\/p>\n<p>Which is sort of the point of democracy, right?<\/p>\n<p>Here in Oregon, we&#8217;ve voted by mail in general elections for 20 years.  We know it works.  <strong>And that&#8217;s why BlueOregon Action is proud to lead the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.signherenow.org\/petition\/vote-by-mail\/blueoregon-action\/\">national Vote By Mail For All movement<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please join Senator Ron Wyden, Senator Jeff Merkley, over two dozen members of Congress, several more elected officials and candidates, and over two dozen national organizations &#8212; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.signherenow.org\/petition\/vote-by-mail\/blueoregon-action\/\">sign our petition demanding national vote by mail for all.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>In 2020, in the midst of this pandemic, we need vote by mail more than ever before.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Make yourself heard. Share this with folks you know, especially those outside of Oregon.  Let&#8217;s get this done!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump votes by mail. He did in 2018 in the New York election. And he did it earlier this spring in the Florida primary election (after he &#8220;moved&#8221; to the Sunshine State.) But now he claims that voting by mail causes fraud. Right here in Oregon, we know Trump&#8217;s just plain wrong. Vote by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimrobison.org\/jimwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimrobison.org\/jimwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimrobison.org\/jimwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimrobison.org\/jimwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimrobison.org\/jimwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimrobison.org\/jimwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimrobison.org\/jimwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimrobison.org\/jimwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimrobison.org\/jimwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}