{"id":193444,"date":"2008-12-15T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T23:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/15\/because-republicans-know-that-counting-the-votes-is-communist\/"},"modified":"2008-12-15T18:27:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T23:27:00","slug":"because-republicans-know-that-counting-the-votes-is-communist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/15\/because-republicans-know-that-counting-the-votes-is-communist\/","title":{"rendered":"Because Republicans Know that Counting the Votes is Communist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/display\/web\/2008\/12\/15\/mon_recount_update\/\">the Coleman campaign has filed suit to stop it<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Republican Sen. Norm Coleman&#8217;s campaign today asked the Minnesota Supreme Court to issue an emergency order banning county election officials from opening any rejected absentee ballots. The court has scheduled a hearing on the issue for Wednesday. The Franken campaign accuses the Coleman side of trying to keep wrongly rejected ballots from being included in the recount.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As an aside here, in addition to hitting on right and wrong, the Franken campaign should be saying flat out that Coleman knows that a real count would show him losing, because it&#8217;s both the truth and good PR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the Coleman campaign has filed suit to stop it Republican Sen. Norm Coleman&#8217;s campaign today asked the Minnesota Supreme Court to issue an emergency order banning county election officials from opening any rejected absentee ballots. The court has scheduled a hearing on the issue for Wednesday. The Franken campaign accuses the Coleman side of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}