{"id":88983,"date":"2025-01-06T04:49:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T10:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88983"},"modified":"2025-01-06T06:39:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T12:39:43","slug":"best-fairest-most-transparent-election-system-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88983","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Best, Fairest, Most Transparent Election System In The US&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the past week or two, we&#8217;ve seen:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The HD54A  recount in Shakopee, which showed DFLer Brad Tabke winning by 14 votes, with 30 ballots turning up <em>missing<\/em>, it seems they&#8217;ve found a significant number of <em>duplicate <\/em>votes.  Any guesses who they voted for?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In the HD40B, Curtis Johnson&#8217;s election was erased.  The DFL is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88954\">trying to jam down a special election<\/a>, even though state statute says the seat needs to be vacant &#8211; which is won&#8217;t be until January 14, when the new legislature gets sworn in.  It&#8217;s still Jamie Becker-Finn&#8217;s seat. (Note to Rep. Becker-Finn:  drapes don&#8217;t have shoes).  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In SD 50, where former Senate Majority Leader Kari Dziedzic died, Governor Klink jammed down a special election on January 14 &#8211; including a <em>one day <\/em>filing window, on New Years Eve.   For a seat the DFL considers <em>their property<\/em>, they have to try to squeeze out any competition.  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 1960s, when Democrat-run states in the deep south were found to have gamed the election rules to keep minorities from the polls, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/crt\/section-4-voting-rights-act\">Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon administrations stepped in<\/a> and put most southern states under consent decrees, requiring them to report to the Department of Justice to ensure their elections were fair and unbiased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s time for Trump&#8217;s DOJ to do the same in Minnesota.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past week or two, we&#8217;ve seen: In the 1960s, when Democrat-run states in the deep south were found to have gamed the election rules to keep minorities from the polls, the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon administrations stepped in and put most southern states under consent decrees, requiring them to report to the Department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,119,2,320,426],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-election-integrity","category-minnesota-politics","category-mndfl","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88988,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88983\/revisions\/88988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}