{"id":867,"date":"2009-05-31T07:12:47","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T07:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=867"},"modified":"2009-05-31T07:12:47","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T07:12:47","slug":"the_neverending_minnesota_sena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=867","title":{"rendered":"The Neverending Minnesota Senate Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks as if the neverending Minnesota Senate election may be coming to an end.&nbsp; According to <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/leading-the-news\/coleman-franklin-prep-to-face-off-on-appeal-2009-05-30.html\">The Hill<\/a>, Senator Coleman and Al Franken will face off before the Minnesota Supreme Court on Monday.&nbsp; According to the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p><em>&#8220;At issue in the appeal is whether or not the panel overseeing Coleman&#8217;s election challenge erred in including some absentee ballots while disqualifying others. Coleman&#8217;s campaign alleges that the court inconsistently allowed ballots.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The basic issue here is &#8220;one man, one vote&#8221;.&nbsp; Frankly, I don&#8217;t think there is a way to get a fair verdict on this vote.&nbsp; The only real way to handle this particular election is to throw the vote out and have a do-over.&nbsp; The audit trail of too many votes has been lost, and an equal standard for counting the votes has not been applied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks as if the neverending Minnesota Senate election may be coming to an end.&nbsp; According to The Hill, Senator Coleman and Al Franken will face off before the Minnesota Supreme Court on Monday.&nbsp; According to the article: &#8220;At issue &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=867\">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-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","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=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}