{"id":35831,"date":"2026-04-07T21:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/07\/a-blatant-political-ploy-california-sheriffs-seizure-of-referendum-ballots-sets-off-alarm-bells-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T21:06:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:06:00","slug":"a-blatant-political-ploy-california-sheriffs-seizure-of-referendum-ballots-sets-off-alarm-bells-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/07\/a-blatant-political-ploy-california-sheriffs-seizure-of-referendum-ballots-sets-off-alarm-bells-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A blatant political ploy\u2019: California sheriff\u2019s seizure of referendum ballots sets off alarm bells &#8211; The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiowFBVV95cUxQdG5ucmptWEdUQThkdlNHUENsQ2t5SjlwOUxiNWlHcWhzRFB5OG12THpkMzhPYTRoa1NpTkQ5Z0JZOVBNLUlULUM1VW03Z21uSGphcmtlTmlHeGE5Y1VucDNGYW5DeHNFY0lMZFMxR0VuTUdsWkFSeXVzTUJKQ0RycTdGVVJWU1A2Yzdud1RDaU9HdWxOakF6d01QcG5IcEY1LXBn?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018A blatant political ploy\u2019: California sheriff\u2019s seizure of referendum ballots sets off alarm bells<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">The Guardian<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018A blatant political ploy\u2019: California sheriff\u2019s seizure of referendum ballots sets off alarm bells&nbsp;&nbsp;The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}