{"id":1278,"date":"2004-11-08T10:44:14","date_gmt":"2004-11-08T15:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/11\/funny_voting_stories_going_mai\/"},"modified":"2004-11-08T10:44:14","modified_gmt":"2004-11-08T15:44:14","slug":"funny_voting_stories_going_mai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/11\/funny_voting_stories_going_mai\/","title":{"rendered":"Funny Voting Stories Going Mainstream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since Tuesday, certain corners of the blogosphere have been abuzz with tales of Election Day irregularities.  I haven&#8217;t commented on them because even though I believe some funny stuff went on, I don&#8217;t believe the problem was widespread enough to determine the outcome of the election.<br \/>\nBut that doesn&#8217;t mean instances of Election Day shenanigans shouldn&#8217;t be called out.  To the contrary, election funny business should be scrutinized&#8211;if, for no other reason&#8211;to ensure that the next election will be better.  Despite the so-called election reforms in 2002, our system is still a mess.  And it&#8217;s a poor reflection on the world&#8217;s sole superpower.<br \/>\nApparently, The Bloggerman will be <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/6368819\/#041107a\">covering Election Day irregularities on his show this week<\/a>.  Why did officials in Warren County, Ohio feel the need to lock out outside observers during the vote count for purposes of &#8220;Homeland Security&#8221;?  Perhaps we&#8217;ll find out.<br \/>\nAs I&#8217;ve noted here before, if you&#8217;re not watching &#8220;Countdown with Keith Olbermann,&#8221; you should be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/11\/funny_voting_stories_going_mai\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Funny Voting Stories Going Mainstream\"><p>Since Tuesday, certain corners of the blogosphere have been abuzz with tales of Election Day irregularities. I haven&#8217;t commented on them because even though I believe some funny stuff went on, I don&#8217;t believe the problem was widespread enough to determine the outcome of the election. But that doesn&#8217;t mean instances of Election Day shenanigans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}