{"id":13423,"date":"2017-12-22T15:57:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T21:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=13423"},"modified":"2017-12-22T15:57:34","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T21:57:34","slug":"that-virginian-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/12\/22\/that-virginian-ballot\/","title":{"rendered":"That Virginian Ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m amazed at what I&#8217;m seeing. But perhaps you haven&#8217;t heard &#8211; in the recent election of a few weeks ago, several Virginia state elections went through a recount, and one went from a ten vote victory for the incumbent Republican to a one vote victory for the Democratic challenger &#8211; to a tie, on the basis of the reappraisal of a single ballot. <em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/virginia-politics\/court-tosses-out-one-vote-victory-in-recount-that-had-briefly-ended-a-republican-majority-in-virginia\/2017\/12\/20\/ed979a70-e5b9-11e7-a65d-1ac0fd7f097e_story.html?utm_term=.1442d79d3d77&amp;wpisrc=nl_most&amp;wpmm=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">provides<\/a> a picture of it:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.washingtonpost.com\/rf\/image_480w\/2010-2019\/WashingtonPost\/2017\/12\/20\/Local\/Images\/ballot_190.JPG?resize=480%2C621&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"480\" height=\"621\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you look at the top of the middle column, clearly &#8211; <strong>VERY CLEARLY<\/strong> &#8211; both ovals are filled in. There can be no doubt that both are filled in and thus the voter&#8217;s selection is invalidated. And if you&#8217;re going to try to divine the mind of the voter, it&#8217;d be for Simonds, the challenger.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m utterly appalled that this ballot is being counted for a race this close and controversial. The panel of judges should be ashamed and resign from their positions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m amazed at what I&#8217;m seeing. But perhaps you haven&#8217;t heard &#8211; in the recent election of a few weeks ago, several Virginia state elections went through a recount, and one went from a ten vote victory for the incumbent Republican to a one vote victory for the Democratic challenger \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/12\/22\/that-virginian-ballot\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13425,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13423\/revisions\/13425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}