{"id":29,"date":"2006-03-28T23:41:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-29T03:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=29"},"modified":"2006-10-03T20:56:09","modified_gmt":"2006-10-04T00:56:09","slug":"voting-in-memphis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"Voting in Memphis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Memphis has taken the first steps toward correcting the voter fraud problem from last Fall&#8217;s special election, as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/mca\/politics\/article\/0,1426,MCA_1496_4575272,00.html\">Commercial Appeal<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The infamous North Memphis precinct where ballots were cast in the names of dead voters no longer exists.<\/p>\n<p>The Shelby County Election Commission has dissolved Precinct 27-1, consolidating it with an adjoining precinct.<\/p>\n<p><!-- in content ad --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/in content ad -->    And all the 27-1 poll workers are barred from working future elections.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On its face, someone committed an illegal voting act,&#8221; said commission Chairman Greg Duckett. &#8220;Until it&#8217;s resolved &#8230; we as a body felt it was important that no one affiliated with that ward and precinct works for the organization.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Efforts continue in the State Senate to determine whether a 13th illegal ballot can be documented, which would give them grounds under a federal judge&#8217;s very specific guidelines to oust Ford&#8217;s sister, Ophelia Ford, from the seat.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, the 104th General Assembly is nearing its close, and Memphians have the opportunity to choose again in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memphis has taken the first steps toward correcting the voter fraud problem from last Fall&#8217;s special election, as the Commercial Appeal reports: The infamous North Memphis precinct where ballots were cast in the names of dead voters no longer exists. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=29\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}