{"id":23364,"date":"2016-11-26T13:14:34","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T19:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=23364"},"modified":"2016-11-26T13:14:34","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T19:14:34","slug":"dont-get-mugged-by-voting-irregularities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/26\/dont-get-mugged-by-voting-irregularities\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t get mugged by voting irregularities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, today I was on my way to the pharmacy to buy important medicine for my son.  The medicine cost about 50 bucks, and I had a fifty dollar bill in my back pocket.<\/p>\n<p>In my front pocket, I had a twenty.<\/p>\n<p>Just before I walk into the pharmacy, this dude with a mask comes along and says, &#8220;I&#8217;ve got a gun, give me your money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, I hand him the $20. He grabs it out of my hand and runs away.<\/p>\n<p>I went into the pharmacy, and as the pharmacist was preparing the medicine for my son, I called the police. A cop arrived within seconds.<\/p>\n<p>The cop opens up his clipboard thingie to take notes, and I told him exactly what happened, every detail.<\/p>\n<p>When I finished with the story, he tears the page from his notebook where he was writing up the report out, crumples it up, and tosses it into a nearby waste basket. Closing his clipboard thingie, he says, &#8220;Well, OK, then, I guess you won&#8217;t need to be filing a report.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why?&#8221; I asked him.  Just at that moment the pharmacist was handing me my change for the medicine, which ended up costing $48.57, and for which I paid with the fifty I had in my back pocket.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, the guy mugged you, but that didn&#8217;t stop you from buying what you came here to buy, did it?&#8221;  And he walks out, gets in his squad car, and drives away.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>All elections should be audited.  In some states, they are, routinely.  Those are the states that ARE the sharpest knives in the drawer.<\/p>\n<p>That is all, thank you very much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, today I was on my way to the pharmacy to buy important medicine for my son. The medicine cost about 50 bucks, and I had a fifty dollar bill in my back pocket. In my front pocket, I had a twenty. Just before I walk into the pharmacy, this dude with a mask comes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/26\/dont-get-mugged-by-voting-irregularities\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don&#8217;t get mugged by voting irregularities<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2368,772,2369,1218],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-64Q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}