{"id":13532,"date":"2008-11-20T13:27:06","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T20:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/11\/20\/makes-you-long-for-hanging-chads.html"},"modified":"2008-11-20T13:27:06","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T20:27:06","slug":"makes_you_long_for_hangin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/20\/makes_you_long_for_hangin.html","title":{"rendered":"Makes you long for hanging chads"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"I vote for the Lizard People!  Or ... do I?\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/lizardpeople-vote.jpg\" width=\"225\" \/> <\/div>\n<p>So you think you could cut through the vote recount clutter in Minnesota and quickly come a conclusion about all those challenged ballots? <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/features\/2008\/11\/19_challenged_ballots\/\" target=\"_blank\">Take the MPR challenge and see<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One bit of amusement is how the challenging from both the Coleman and Franken camps completely flip-flops on similar bad markings that favor their candidates.<\/p>\n<p><small><\/p>\n<p>(via Ginny)<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you think you could cut through the vote recount clutter in Minnesota and quickly come a conclusion about all those challenged ballots? 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