{"id":8365,"date":"2010-11-08T13:57:10","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T19:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=8365"},"modified":"2010-11-08T13:57:10","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T19:57:10","slug":"their-motives-are-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/08\/their-motives-are-suspect\/","title":{"rendered":"Their Motives Are Suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/govt-and-politics\/political-fix\/article_16415d04-eb52-11df-aac1-0017a4a78c22.html\" target=\"_blank\">Martin concedes but is still worried about voter integrity<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Still, Martin offered criticism for Russ&#8217; sister, Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, whose office maintains a voter database that went offline during part of Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>Martin also questioned why the St. Louis Board of Election &#8212; of which he was once chairman &#8212; hired a private security firm that had once done work for Russ Carnahan&#8217;s campaign. (The firm, Special Services, is hired frequently to provide protection at political events.)<\/p>\n<p>Though the election is over, Martin said he will continue to &#8220;in the coming weeks and days&#8230;to highlight the importantce of protecting our voting system.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Martin did not impugn nor question the integrity of voters.  He questioned the integrity of voter rolls.<\/p>\n<p>Words mean things.  It&#8217;s sad to see professional journalists&#8211;or bloggers who blog for newspaper Web sites&#8211;show the same precision with words as you normally get out of Nigerians writing e-mails in an Internet cafe in Lagos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin concedes but is still worried about voter integrity: Still, Martin offered criticism for Russ&#8217; sister, Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, whose office maintains a voter database that went offline during part of Election Day. Martin also questioned why the St. Louis Board of Election &#8212; of which he was once chairman &#8212; hired a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-louis-post-dispatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8367,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8365\/revisions\/8367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}