{"id":134,"date":"2008-10-13T05:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T09:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/10\/13\/voting-for-osama-in-upstate-new-york\/"},"modified":"2008-10-13T05:28:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T09:28:00","slug":"voting-for-osama-in-upstate-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/10\/13\/voting-for-osama-in-upstate-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting for &quot;Osama&quot; in Upstate New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rensselaer County legislature is trying to figure out why absentee ballots were sent to voters in five towns with the Democratic presidential candidate named as &#8220;Barack Osama.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the money quote from the Albany Times-Union write-up:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We need to review the procedures to make sure there are better checks and balances,&#8221; said Minority Leader Virginia O&#8217;Brien, D-East Greenbush.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Brien said she would speak to Legislature Chairman Neil Kelleher, R-Troy, about undertaking a substantial review of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s unfortunate that it happened. The Obama campaign was certainly very understanding,&#8221; said O&#8217;Brien, who spoke at an Obama rally Saturday morning in Albany.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rensselaer County legislature is trying to figure out why absentee ballots were sent to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}