{"id":9336,"date":"2020-11-03T07:55:44","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T13:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/?p=9336"},"modified":"2020-11-03T08:15:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T14:15:50","slug":"2020-general-election-in-oregon-county-missouri-pivotal-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/politics\/elections\/2020-general-election-in-oregon-county-missouri-pivotal-presidential-election-20201103","title":{"rendered":"2020 General Election In Oregon County Missouri— Pivotal Presidential Election"},"content":{"rendered":"
UPDATE!<\/strong> Coupons for FREE ice cream cones are gone. They were all given away by 8:00 am! Sorry. Maybe next election we’ll have more.<\/em><\/div>\n

Alton, Mo. \u2013 <\/strong>The 2020 general election (which also happens to be a Presidential election year) is taking place on November 3rd, and there are multiple polling places open across the county. Polls opened at 6:00 am this morning at the First Baptist Church on Highway 19 here in Alton, Mo. so voters can cast their ballots to choose candidates running for public office.<\/p>\n

The 2020 election year is considered by many to be a pivotal point in national politics. The gap between the parties has widened over the last couple of decades to the point where one political party espouses “Law and Order,” and the other entertains the idea of defunding the police. A gap that is so wide that when the Republican President nominates a Supreme Court justice whose record is that of applying the law, as written, to cases that come before the court and then confirmed by that president’s party, the Democrat leadership says that “The nomination of Amy Coney Barrett is the most illegitimate process I have ever witnessed in the Senate, and her potential confirmation will have dire, dire consequences for the Senate for the Supreme Court and our entire country for generations to come [1]<\/sup><\/a>“.<\/p>\n

The various polling places in Oregon County can be found here: Oregon County in Missouri Polling Places<\/a>.<\/p>\n

AltonMo.com will be passing out coupons for *FREE* small ice cream cones at the Alton Burger Palace for those who cast their ballot today. The coupons will be good until Friday, November 6th, 2020, and are transferable.<\/p>\n

Make sure to vote. Every vote counts.<\/p>\n

Notes:<\/h4>
  1. ^<\/a>Schultz, M. (2020). Democrats boycotting Amy Coney Barrett hearing decry vote as a ‘sham’<\/a>. Fox News. Retrieved from https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/democrats-boycott-amy-coney-barrett-hearing (go back  ↩)<\/a><\/li><\/ol><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Polls opened at 6:00 am this morning at the First Baptist Church on Highway 19 in Alton, Mo. so voters can cast ballots choosing candidates running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[229,264,203,205,263],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9336"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9344,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9336\/revisions\/9344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}