{"id":18240,"date":"2022-04-19T06:31:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T11:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=18240"},"modified":"2022-04-19T06:31:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T11:31:42","slug":"mashpee-voter-participation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=18240","title":{"rendered":"Mashpee Voter Participation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For Mashpee’s 2021 town-level elections, total eligible voters by precinct numbered 12,072\u2014with only 1,709 community members showing up to the polls, about 14%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The May 2021 annual Town Meeting, said Town Clerk Deborah (Dami) Kaye, “was\u00a0even more dismal” with about 464\u00a0people present to approve a $62\u00a0million budget.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For Mashpee’s 2021 town-level elections, total eligible voters by precinct numbered 12,072\u2014with only 1,709 community members showing up to the polls, about 14%.The May 2021 annual Town Meeting, said Town Clerk Deborah (Dami) Kaye, “was\u00a0even more dismal” with about 464\u00a0people present to approve a $62\u00a0million … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18241,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18240\/revisions\/18241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}