{"id":106643,"date":"2018-10-24T16:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T20:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=106643"},"modified":"2018-10-24T16:50:54","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T20:50:54","slug":"is-the-florida-election-being-stolen-via-an-absentee-ballot-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=106643","title":{"rendered":"Is the Florida election being stolen via an absentee ballot scam?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>How crooked is Leon County?<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->By Steve Holland<br \/>\nAmerican Thinker<\/p>\n<p>Today is the start of early voting in Leon County, Florida.\u00a0\u00a0My wife asked me to mail her absentee ballot on the same day.\u00a0\u00a0I planned to vote early, so as I readied for my trip to the post office, I\u00a0brought my absentee ballot with me to turn it in.<\/p>\n<p>I tossed both envelopes into the car seat and noticed something unusual.\u00a0\u00a0My wife is\u00a0a registered Democrat, and her envelope was postage-paid with &#8220;par avion,&#8221; which is French for air mail.\u00a0\u00a0I&#8217;m a registered Republican, and my envelope had clear bold-type letters stating that postage needed to be applied.\u00a0\u00a0(See the photo below.)<\/p>\n<p>Hmmmm.\u00a0\u00a0Why the difference?\u00a0\u00a0Is it a mistake?\u00a0\u00a0Is a random error where some received a free postage-paid envelope, while others didn&#8217;t?\u00a0\u00a0Was it intentional?\u00a0\u00a0Did only Democrats receive the postage-paid envelopes, and Republican didn&#8217;t?\u00a0\u00a0Did the Florida DNC or the National DNC pay for this service?\u00a0\u00a0Are there other services these organizations paid for?\u00a0\u00a0If so, what are they?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0My wife&#8217;s envelope is signed, while mine is not.\u00a0\u00a0Things that make you go hmmmm.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/images\/bucket\/2018-10\/209863_5_.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/how_crooked_is_leon_county.html\">http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/how_crooked_is_leon_county.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How crooked is Leon County?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}