{"id":2471,"date":"2020-11-06T19:26:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T03:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jocularious.com\/?p=2471"},"modified":"2020-11-06T19:26:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T03:26:24","slug":"minimum-wage-nevada-vote-counter-reconsiders-her-career-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jocularious.com\/?p=2471","title":{"rendered":"Minimum Wage Nevada Vote Counter Reconsiders Her Career Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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There are 50 states, but several always loom larger than the others \u2013 among them, California, Florida, New York, and Texas.\u00a0 But the REALLY big one, the one which always comes to mind first when we think of raw election power is, of course, Nevada<\/em>.\u00a0 That\u2019s because Nevada has a whopping six<\/em> electoral college votes.\u00a0 To put this in perspective, Alaska has three, and no one lives in Alaska.\u00a0 On the other hand, California has 55 electoral votes.\u00a0 There are so many electoral college representatives in California that if you stretched them head to toe, they would reach all the way from that great American landmark, the Golden Gate Bridge, to that other great American landmark, the world\u2019s largest ball of twine, in Cawker City, Kansas.\u00a0 (Google it!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s day three after the election, and Nevada is still trying to tally its votes.\u00a0 You would think that with all those nimble blackjack dealing fingers, they\u2019d have finished lickety-split. \u00a0But no – Snake eyes,\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nevada election workers are feeling more heat than the cat who crawled onto the engine of the recently parked Chrysler Cordoba.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cindy Smallwood,\na seasonal election worker in Winnemucca, Nevada, took the minimum wage job at her\nlocal elections division to earn money for Christmas.  She is now literally losing her hair and back\nup to three packs a day.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI pictured myself\nin a quiet room counting votes.  But this\nmorning, my supervisor recommended we start wearing body armor,\u201d said the 36-year-old\nmother of two.  \u201cI don\u2019t have any body\narmor.  And frankly, it sounds expensive.  I only make $8.25 an hour.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cindy shyly admitted that she didn\u2019t even vote in the election.\u00a0 \u201cThey\u2019re both a couple of clowns if you ask me,\u201d she quipped.\u00a0 She pulled out her smartphone and clicked on her Facebook page.\u00a0 Then she scrolled to a meme she posted earlier in the day.\u00a0 It said: \u2018If either<\/em> one of these nuts gets voted President, I\u2019m moving to Canada!\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then Cindy put her phone away, crushed her cigarette butt under her heel, and began pushing her way through the crowd of \u201cobservers\u201d back toward her station in the counting room. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are 50 states, but several always loom larger than the others \u2013 among them, California, Florida, New York, and Texas.\u00a0 But the REALLY big one, the one which always comes to mind first when we think of raw election power is, of course, Nevada.\u00a0 That\u2019s because Nevada has a whopping six electoral college votes.\u00a0 […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[873,982],"class_list":["post-2471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humor","tag-election-humor","tag-nevada-humor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jocularious.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Nevada-.jpeg?fit=2818%2C2363&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jocularious.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jocularious.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jocularious.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jocularious.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jocularious.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2471"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jocularious.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2479,"href":"https:\/\/jocularious.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions\/2479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jocularious.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jocularious.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jocularious.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jocularious.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}