{"id":308,"date":"2008-11-23T08:06:40","date_gmt":"2008-11-23T08:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=308"},"modified":"2008-11-23T08:06:40","modified_gmt":"2008-11-23T08:06:40","slug":"the_saga_continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=308","title":{"rendered":"The Saga Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/national\/senate\/34936534.html\">Minnesota Star Tribune<\/a>&nbsp;reported that the Coleman-Franken election may be determined by rejected absentee ballots.&nbsp; I think it&#8217;s a good idea that all absentee ballots should be looked at carefully, but I hope that common sense will be used in reexamining them and deciding the intent (and legality) of the voter.&nbsp; As of Saturday night, Norm Coleman had a 180 vote lead over Al Franken.&nbsp; According to the article&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a race this tight, the difference could come down to clerical errors on absentee ballots or even a challenge of Minnesota&#8217;s law governing such ballots.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Campaigns over the years have challenged anything and everything,&#8221; said recount expert Timothy Downs, principal author of &#8220;The Recount Primer&#8221; who has been involved in most major recounts over the years, including the biggest: Gore vs. Bush in 2000. Downs&#8217; co-author, Chris Sautter, hit the ground in Minneapolis last week as part of Franken&#8217;s recount team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As I said, the saga continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s Minnesota Star Tribune&nbsp;reported that the Coleman-Franken election may be determined by rejected absentee ballots.&nbsp; I think it&#8217;s a good idea that all absentee ballots should be looked at carefully, but I hope that common sense will be used in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=308\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}