{"id":3773,"date":"2020-11-07T19:38:24","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T19:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3773"},"modified":"2020-11-07T19:38:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T19:38:24","slug":"stop-the-count-vs-count-every-vote-the-post-election-protests-around-the-country-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3773","title":{"rendered":"\u201cStop the count\u201d vs. \u201ccount every vote\u201d: The post-election protests around the country, explained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;In Phoenix,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/05\/us\/election-protests-portland-minnesota-arizona.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trump supporters converged<\/a>&nbsp;on a county recorder\u2019s office to demand that all votes be counted \u2014 while officials were inside, busily counting votes in a state where Democratic nominee Joe Biden was ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Detroit, meanwhile, a pro-Trump crowd demanded that authorities&nbsp;<em>stop<\/em>&nbsp;counting votes in the state, arguing that their poll observers had been unfairly treated.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;while activist groups have led demonstrations around the country calling for those results to be tabulated fairly, the president has pursued a strategy of trying to stop counts in swing states where he looks ahead (and in some cases where he doesn\u2019t), while issuing baseless allegations of fraud in places where he\u2019s been declared the loser.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;A limited number of certified poll challengers of both parties were also allowed inside the center, where some say Republican challengers intimidated ballot counters by taking their masks off, getting too close, and demanding that they stop counting.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/11\/5\/21550909\/protests-trump-biden-maricopa-detroit-i-94\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/11\/5\/21550909\/protests-trump-biden-maricopa-detroit-i-94<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In Phoenix, Trump supporters converged on a county recorder\u2019s office to demand that all votes be counted \u2014 while officials were inside, busily counting votes in a state where Democratic nominee Joe Biden was ahead.<\/p>\n<p>In Detroit, meanwhile, a pro-Trump crowd demanded that authorities stop counting votes in the state, arguing that their poll observers had been unfairly treated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;while activist groups have led demonstrations around the country calling for those results to be tabulated fairly, the president has pursued a strategy of trying to stop counts in swing states where he looks ahead (and in some cases where he doesn\u2019t), while issuing baseless allegations of fraud in places where he\u2019s been declared the loser.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A limited number of certified poll challengers of both parties were also allowed inside the center, where some say Republican challengers intimidated ballot counters by taking their masks off, getting too close, and demanding that they stop counting.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[372,479],"class_list":["post-3773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-election","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3774,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773\/revisions\/3774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}