{"id":32590,"date":"2012-10-27T09:52:30","date_gmt":"2012-10-27T13:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32590"},"modified":"2012-10-27T09:52:30","modified_gmt":"2012-10-27T13:52:30","slug":"absentee-ballots-lost-in-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32590","title":{"rendered":"Absentee ballots lost in plane crash?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s an excuse that I&#8217;d use if I was worried about the absentee ballots going against me in an upcoming election. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/middle-east\/afghanistan\/absentee-ballots-for-afghanistan-may-have-been-burned-in-crash-1.194773\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> link;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A top official in the Federal Voting Assistance Program this week notified election officials across the nation that a transport plane crashed at Shindad Air Base on Oct. 19.<\/p>\n<p>The crash resulted in the destruction of 4,700 pounds of mail inbound to troops serving in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Federal officials in their email to state election offices said they did not know if any ballots were destroyed. They also said the lost mail was limited to one zip code.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can find little about any <a href=\"http:\/\/aviation-safety.net\/wikibase\/wiki.php?id=150391\">crash at Shindad Air Base<\/a> but it looks like there were no casualties, which seems odd. I&#8217;m just saying in light of the cover up at Benghazi, this one is small potatoes.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone out there has more information on the crash (apparently, almost all of the articles in Google are only related to the ballots), I&#8217;d welcome it, if just to mollify the voices in my head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s an excuse that I&#8217;d use if I was worried about the absentee ballots going &hellip; <a title=\"Absentee ballots lost in plane crash?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32590\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Absentee ballots lost in plane crash?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-election","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}