{"id":10418,"date":"2022-11-08T15:10:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T21:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rctc.edu\/echo\/?p=10418"},"modified":"2025-09-25T06:21:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T12:21:33","slug":"let-the-voting-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/let-the-voting-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"Let the voting begin!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-10387 size-medium\" src=\"\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/votecnn-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Voting Booths\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/votecnn-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/votecnn.jpg 552w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the polls opened at RCTC\u2019s Regional Sports Center Tuesday morning, Echo staff writer Erik Benson was on the scene. Here are a few of the moments he captured.<\/p>\n<p>Head election judge Harold Hatton under a huge American flag: \u201cIt\u2019s good to see a lot of people coming out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Election judge KC Reed: \u201cIt\u2019s going very smooth this morning. Good participation. We have a good location here, very open and spread out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10992 size-medium\" src=\"\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Image7-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"I voted stickers\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\">Bright red \u201cI voted\u201d stickers waiting to be attached.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after the polls opened at RCTC\u2019s Regional Sports Center Tuesday morning, Echo staff writer Erik Benson was on the scene. Here are a few of the moments he captured. Head election judge Harold Hatton under a huge American flag: \u201cIt\u2019s good to see a lot of people coming out.\u201d Election judge KC Reed: \u201cIt\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1015,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[51,48,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-campus","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}