{"id":383,"date":"2008-12-26T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T19:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=383"},"modified":"2008-12-26T19:35:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-26T19:35:00","slug":"minnesota_recount_part_whateve_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=383","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Recount  Part Whatever 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2008\/12\/022394.php\">Power Line Blog<\/a>&nbsp;the Minnesota Supreme Court did not rule on the issue of counting votes twice because they felt that the issue would be better decided in a longer hearing which would include evidence and fact-finding.&nbsp; Evidently, they felt that the &#8216;abbreviated proceeding&#8217; did not allow the issue to be resolved.&nbsp; The question they are trying to resolve has to do with machine malfunctions and handwritten ballots&#8211;some handwritten ballots were cast when the machines did not work properly.&nbsp; These ballots need to be matched up so that one person&#8217;s vote is not counted twice.&nbsp; The other issue in this recount is that the standards of &#8216;voter intent&#8217; vary a great deal with each voting district, and two ballots with identical markings may be counted differently depending on the district and the counters.&nbsp; However, I go back to my original statement&#8211;if it hadn&#8217;t been close, this fiasco would not be happening.&nbsp; Minnesota, if you wind up with Senator Al Franken, it&#8217;s because you have earned him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Power Line Blog&nbsp;the Minnesota Supreme Court did not rule on the issue of counting votes twice because they felt that the issue would be better decided in a longer hearing which would include evidence and fact-finding.&nbsp; Evidently, they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=383\">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-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","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=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}