{"id":49879,"date":"2026-04-24T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/24\/californias-slow-ballot-count-fuels-mistrust-but-speed-comes-with-tradeoffs-calmatters\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:00:00","slug":"californias-slow-ballot-count-fuels-mistrust-but-speed-comes-with-tradeoffs-calmatters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/24\/californias-slow-ballot-count-fuels-mistrust-but-speed-comes-with-tradeoffs-calmatters\/","title":{"rendered":"California&#8217;s slow ballot count fuels mistrust, but speed comes with tradeoffs &#8211; CalMatters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiekFVX3lxTE8wUGFkaHJqeGpKWmI3TFFac2o5S3l5UktuRk8wQWJodklwVDJjejBleW8weXc1bVRsdWlLbGFpZFJmbHA4VzB4cWkyLUdjeGtUbFVMUEVvRTZDSE02OUlSZVlxeVpMdEkxYjVvN2cxQ0tSS19xVFg5eHNR?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">California&#8217;s slow ballot count fuels mistrust, but speed comes with tradeoffs<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">CalMatters<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California&#8217;s slow ballot count fuels mistrust, but speed comes with tradeoffs&nbsp;&nbsp;CalMatters<\/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-49879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49879","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=49879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}