{"id":25431,"date":"2012-09-10T08:31:20","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T12:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=25431"},"modified":"2012-09-10T08:31:20","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T12:31:20","slug":"americans-living-in-the-bahamas-encouraged-to-vote-in-upcoming-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/09\/americans-living-in-the-bahamas-encouraged-to-vote-in-upcoming-elections","title":{"rendered":"Americans Living in The Bahamas Encouraged to Vote in Upcoming Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_25434\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25434\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25434 \" title=\"john-dinkelman\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/john-dinkleman-250x171.jpg\" alt=\"John Dinkelman\" width=\"250\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/john-dinkleman-250x171.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/john-dinkleman-150x103.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/john-dinkleman.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25434\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Charg\u00e9 d\u2019Affaires John Dinkelman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With the United States\u2019 2012  Presidential Elections approaching, U.S. Charg\u00e9 d\u2019Affaires John  Dinkelman released a Public Service Announcement (PSA) on the U.S.  Embassy\u2019s official website, Facebook page and Twitter feed encouraging  Americans residing in The Bahamas to vote using an absentee ballot.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Charg\u00e9 stressed how important it is for every American, even  those residing overseas, to influence the direction of the country by  exercising their right to vote.<\/p>\n<p>The PSA also provides information on the U.S. absentee voting process  and the voting resources available through the U.S. Embassy in Nassau.   For more information log on to the U.S. Embassy\u2019s website and learn  about absentee voting in the U.S. at <a href=\"http:\/\/nassau.usembassy.gov\/usvoting.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/nassau.usembassy.gov\/usvoting.html<\/a> or contact the Embassy\u2019s American Citizens Services Section via email at <a href=\"mailto:VoteNassau@state.gov\">VoteNassau@state.gov<\/a> or call 322-1181 and ask for the Voting Officer Assistant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Charg\u00e9 Encourages Americans Living in The Bahamas to Vote in the U.S. Presidential Elections on November 6, 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[126,113],"class_list":["post-25431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-elections","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}