{"id":24310,"date":"2020-10-31T05:00:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T20:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/31\/the-us-election-that-doesnt-count-guam-goes-to-the-polls-but-votes-wont-matter"},"modified":"2020-10-31T05:00:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T20:00:31","slug":"the-us-election-that-doesnt-count-guam-goes-to-the-polls-but-votes-wont-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24310","title":{"rendered":"The US election that doesn&#8217;t count: Guam goes to the polls but votes won&#8217;t matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Now that I live in Guam, I cannot vote\u2019. The first Americans to \u2018vote\u2019 on polling day have no say in who will be president <\/p>\n<p>Politics is a favourite sport on the streets of Hagatna, where voters are preparing for the US elections.<\/p>\n<p>Billboards adorn every street corner and conversations are dominated by candidates and their policies. But when Guamanians go to the polls on 3 November and mark down their preference for president, their \u201cvotes\u201d won\u2019t count.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/31\/the-us-election-that-doesnt-count-guam-goes-to-the-polls-but-votes-wont-matter\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Now that I live in Guam, I cannot vote\u2019. The first Americans to \u2018vote\u2019 on polling day have no say in who will be president Politics is a favourite sport on the streets of Hagatna, where voters are preparing for the US elections.Billboards adorn every &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1658,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,749,1272,874,1136,47,631,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-colonialism","category-guam","category-pacific-islands","category-us-elections-2020","category-us-news","category-us-politics","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24311,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24310\/revisions\/24311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}