{"id":232,"date":"2016-02-16T11:34:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T16:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=232"},"modified":"2016-02-16T11:34:13","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T16:34:13","slug":"primary-elections-in-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"Primary Elections In Ohio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is mostly a note for myself, but if anyone else in Ohio is currently an unaffiliated voter who wants to cast a primary ballot for a party, you can switch party affiliation at your polling location by asking for the party ballot. Since you did not cast a ballot for that party in the previous primary (I&#8217;ve used the non-party issues ballot for the past few years. In Arkansas, you did not have to be party-affiliated to use a party&#8217;s primary ballot), you may be challenged by the poll worker. If that is the case, tell them you wish to switch parties and would like to complete the appropriate form.<\/p>\n<p>Per <a href=\"http:\/\/codes.ohio.gov\/orc\/3513.20\" target=\"_blank\">Ohio Revised Code 3513.20<\/a>, this is the proper process *provided that you &#8220;support the principals of the political party whose ballot&#8221; you vote*. Political party principals are *really* generic (and don&#8217;t specify the specifics to reach those goals) &#8211; not a lot of people who want more crime, think primary education is a bunch of nonsense, wish there was more unemployment, and so on. Really, even long time party members disagree about how to reach a goal and how\u00a0well an individual candidate reflects the principals of their party &#8230; so not liking a specific policy implementation does not negate my support for the PRINCIPALS of the party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is mostly a note for myself, but if anyone else in Ohio is currently an unaffiliated voter who wants to cast a primary ballot for a party, you can switch party affiliation at your polling location by asking for the party ballot. Since you did not cast a ballot for that party in the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}