{"id":5977,"date":"2016-10-19T08:06:07","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T13:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=5977"},"modified":"2016-10-19T08:06:07","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T13:06:07","slug":"avoiding-that-descent-into-third-world-status-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/10\/19\/avoiding-that-descent-into-third-world-status-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding That Descent Into Third World Status, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the subject of election rigging<\/a>, David Michigan on The Daily Kos <\/b><\/i>enhances<\/a>\u00a0a public service by the law firm of Ashby Law<\/strong><\/em> by taking a tweet storm by Ashby<\/strong><\/em> and turning it into something a little more coherent. The storm concerns the mechanics of running the election – and why election rigging is highly unlikely. Here’s the final paragraphs of a precise, fascinating description of something I was not that much aware of:<\/p>\n

This doesn\u2019t mean we shouldn\u2019t watch the election.\u00a0 We absolutely should. But watching means signing up, getting trained, understanding the election process and conducting yourself appropriately on Election Day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Watching doesn\u2019t mean loitering menacingly in and around a polling place. That\u2019s not poll watching, that\u2019s voter intimidation.<\/p>\n

Republican leaders and lawyers should speak out against this fantastical nonsense. In addition to undermining public faith and confidence in our electoral system, which is foundational to the legitimacy of our government, it is undermining legitimate efforts to recruit and train watchers to observe this election to ensure that it is free, open, fair and honest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Elsewhere they treat the election machine protocol, and honestly I felt the protocol sounded naive and easy to circumvent. But it’s clear that most rigging would be difficult to do – and the election machines are supplied by mostly Republican-associated entities, so I don’t think Trump has a leg to stand on still.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the subject of election rigging, David Michigan on The Daily Kos enhances\u00a0a public service by the law firm of Ashby Law by taking a tweet storm by Ashby and turning it into something a little more coherent. The storm concerns the mechanics of running the election – and why \u2026 Continue reading → <\/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-5977","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\/5977","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=5977"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5989,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5977\/revisions\/5989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}