{"id":88559,"date":"2024-10-22T10:29:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T15:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88559"},"modified":"2024-10-22T10:29:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T15:29:47","slug":"the-proverbial-trunk-full-of-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88559","title":{"rendered":"The Proverbial Trunk Full Of Ballots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Over the weekend, a courier hauling boxes of ballots was observed leaving his trunk open for about ten minutes as he ran another errand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hennepin County courier fired after boxes of ballots left unattended for nearly 10 minutes in Edina <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/czS2nRX2ai\">https:\/\/t.co\/czS2nRX2ai<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Tom Hauser (@thauserkstp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thauserkstp\/status\/1847833734650777919?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The driver got fired &#8211; but the story hasn&#8217;t quite gone away yet.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Secretary of State Simon rained down his anger&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;on the courier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I just talked to MN Sec of State Steve Simon who didn\u2019t hold back in his criticism of the courier who left Hennepin County ballots unattended for nearly 10 minutes in an open vehicle on Friday. Says he was \u201cupset\u201d that \u201cone bonehead\u201d put trust in our election system at risk. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jiCG0t7nP9\">pic.twitter.com\/jiCG0t7nP9<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Tom Hauser (@thauserkstp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thauserkstp\/status\/1848409140613275741?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 21, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But it turns out, the bonehead was anyone who believed Steve Simon when he said Minnesota had the bestest, mostest sucurest election system in the universe.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a violation of the law that Simon is supposed to enforce:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This appears to be a gross violation of state law. Where is the investigation? Where is the accountability? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iAiS05Vlg7\">https:\/\/t.co\/iAiS05Vlg7<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/O73V8pP8qY\">pic.twitter.com\/O73V8pP8qY<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Walter Hudson (@WalterHudson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WalterHudson\/status\/1847743197398630899?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 19, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So I don&#8217;t know about you, but I get the impression that there&#8217;s more than one &#8220;bonehead&#8221; involved.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, a courier hauling boxes of ballots was observed leaving his trunk open for about ten minutes as he ran another errand. The driver got fired &#8211; but the story hasn&#8217;t quite gone away yet. Secretary of State Simon rained down his anger&#8230; &#8230;on the courier. But it turns out, the bonehead was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88559","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=88559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88560,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88559\/revisions\/88560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}