{"id":26779,"date":"2009-07-08T19:01:45","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T19:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/07\/08\/minnesotan-citizen-jury-will-e\/"},"modified":"2009-07-08T19:01:45","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T19:01:45","slug":"minnesotan-citizen-jury-will-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/08\/minnesotan-citizen-jury-will-e\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesotan Citizen Jury will Evaluate Recount Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Citizens Jury on Election Recounts<\/em> is a privately funded entity that has assembled 24 jurors and given them stipends and various resources to evaluate the recount process and make recommendations.  The &#8220;jurors&#8221; are randomly selected regular people.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I think there needs to be many different examinations of the lessons learned from the recount,&#8221; said Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, who, along with Rep. Laura Brod, R-New Prague, has endorsed the citizen jury concept for this hyperlocal and hypertopical issue. &#8220;Citizens are the ones participating in the elections, and they have felt the effects of not having a senator for many months. They have an important stake in describing what they&#8217;ve learned and making suggestions for improvements.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Will they be novel?  Will they be a filter for expertise that will (hopefully) be available to them?  Will they be a good filter?  Will they prove that the masses are asses, or will they prove that there is truth in community?  We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/stories\/2009\/07\/08\/10102\/with_senate_race_finally_over_citizens_jury_taking_a_stab_at_offering_fixes_for_minnesotas_recount_process\">Details at Minn Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Citizens Jury on Election Recounts is a privately funded entity that has assembled 24 jurors and given them stipends and various resources to evaluate the recount process and make recommendations. The &#8220;jurors&#8221; are randomly selected regular people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6XV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26779"}],"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=26779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}