{"id":22043,"date":"2011-08-29T07:24:12","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T12:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=22043"},"modified":"2011-08-29T07:24:12","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T12:24:12","slug":"just-keep-repeating-to-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=22043","title":{"rendered":"Just Keep Repeating To Yourself&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;that &#8220;we have<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/minnesota\/ci_18706947\">\u00a0the best election system in the country<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Six people have recently been charged in St. Louis County with a felony crime that is rarely seen on a Northeastern Minnesota court docket: &#8220;Voting while ineligible.&#8221;Its a felony punishable by a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine, but a conviction most likely will result in a probationary sentence.Under Minnesota law, a person is ineligible to vote if his or her civil rights had not been restored after being convicted of treason, or any felony, or while under a guardianship in which a court order revoked the wards right to vote, or if found by a court of law to be legally incompetent.All six of the people charged &#8211; four at the St. Louis County District Court in Duluth and two at the St. Louis County District Court in Hibbing &#8211; are accused of being convicted felons when they allegedly voted in the November 2008 general election.&#8221;We discovered these cases left over from the previous administration,&#8221; St. Louis County Attorney Mark Rubin said. &#8220;Weve tried to address the backlog. We reviewed them all and charged those that were deemed to have probable cause to charge.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And somehow, a Richfield man allegedly wound up voting up there:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Antonio Vassel Brown, 48, is being transported from the Minnesota Correctional Facility in Lino Lakes, where hes serving a 24-month sentence for the sale of crack, to make his initial appearance on the ineligible voter charge in Duluth on Aug. 30.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Best voting system in the country. \u00a0Best voting system in the country. \u00a0Best voting system in the country. \u00a0Best voting system in the country. \u00a0Best voting system in the country.<\/p>\n<p>And remember &#8211; the only reason <em>not <\/em>to chant &#8220;Best voting system in the country&#8221; is that you&#8217;re a racist!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;that &#8220;we have\u00a0the best election system in the country&#8220;: Six people have recently been charged in St. Louis County with a felony crime that is rarely seen on a Northeastern Minnesota court docket: &#8220;Voting while ineligible.&#8221;Its a felony punishable by a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine, but a conviction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-integrity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22044,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22043\/revisions\/22044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}