{"id":2454,"date":"2022-03-29T13:14:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T13:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=2454"},"modified":"2022-03-29T17:23:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T17:23:57","slug":"is-this-the-kraken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2022\/03\/29\/is-this-the-kraken\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this the long-awaited kraken?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a lot of talk from Trump and his supporters about voting irregularities, and how the 2020 election was rigged and\/or stolen. So far, the evidence has been less than persuasive. <\/p>\n<p>There was cheating (there&#8217;s always cheating), a lot of the rules were bent because of the pandemic, and there were some generally weird things going on, but so far, no one has been able to prove that the weird stuff was significant enough to change the result, or even that it all trended in one direction. Some Republicans were caught cheating too. <\/p>\n<p>Now we seem to have the first serious attempt with actual data. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/washington-secrets\/new-report-255-000-excess-votes-for-biden-in-six-key-2020-states\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New report: 255,000 \u2018excess votes\u2019 for Biden in six key 2020 states<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not endorsing this or claiming anything about the election, but it is worth noting, and it will be interesting to see how this story plays out. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a lot of talk from Trump and his supporters about voting irregularities, and how the 2020 election was rigged and\/or stolen. So far, the evidence has been less than persuasive. There was cheating (there&#8217;s always cheating), a lot of the rules were bent because of the pandemic, and there were some generally weird &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2022\/03\/29\/is-this-the-kraken\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is this the long-awaited kraken?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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-2454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2454"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2457,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions\/2457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}