{"id":5993,"date":"2021-10-27T19:00:06","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T19:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=5993"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:22:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:22:37","slug":"letters-do-not-give-up-your-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/letters-do-not-give-up-your-ballot\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters: Do NOT give up your ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Barsotti neighbors,<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Please be aware that there are people in our neighborhood trying to hijack ballots. DO NOT give up your ballot! They are NOT Elsa Mejia\u2019s campaign volunteers.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Elsa has asked Ed McIntyre, Steve Montes, Israel Cortez and myself to work in the Barsotti Tract. We are the only volunteers walking door-to-door passing out Elsa\u2019s material in our neighborhood. We DO NOT ask for ballots.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>This is another example of Elsa\u2019s opponent\u2019s dishonest and fraudulent campaign. We cannot allow our elections to be commandeered by deceitful campaigns!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Gail Hanhart McIntyre,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><em>Madera County Supervisor, ret.,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><em>Barsotti Tract Chair for Elsa Mejia<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Barsotti neighbors, Please be aware that there are people in our neighborhood trying to hijack ballots. DO NOT give up your ballot! They are NOT Elsa Mejia\u2019s campaign volunteers. Elsa has asked Ed McIntyre, Steve Montes, Israel Cortez and myself to work in the Barsotti Tract. We are the only volunteers walking door-to-door passing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-5993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-government"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}