{"id":6330,"date":"2022-08-23T19:51:49","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T00:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weazel-news.online\/?p=6330"},"modified":"2022-09-04T04:28:25","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T09:28:25","slug":"candidate-challenges-election-legality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weazel-news.online\/index.php\/2022\/08\/23\/candidate-challenges-election-legality\/","title":{"rendered":"Candidate Challenges Election Legality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Los Santos, San Andreas<\/em> &#8211; Candidate Oliver Hall (Ind.) has filed a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/newdayrp.com\/threads\/oliver-hall-v-the-san-andreas-legislature-state-of-san-andreas-audrey-storm-jordan-malone-rya-avery-jericho-delmonta-jack-callow-in-their-of.28290\/\" target=\"_blank\">General Dispute against the Legislature<\/a> for failing to table a resolution to hold the General Election as required by the state constitution. The candidate demanded a &#8216;Emergency Writ of Mandamus&#8217; for the Legislature to file the resolution calling for the summer election due to take place in early September. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of the publication of this article, Speaker Audrey Storm (Ind.) has introduced a resolution to call the summer election with dates consistent with the regular election expectations. However, the constitution outlines expectations regarding the passage of such a Resolution: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The state Legislature must pass a Resolution <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">prior<\/span> to an election to set the election schedule.<\/p><cite>San Andreas State Constitution<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This leaves the current election in potential legal jeopardy, as candidates have been certified and the campaign is already underway. The constitution doesn&#8217;t make it clear if it requires the resolution to be passed before voting takes place, so it could come down to a matter of interpretation. It remains to be seen whether this legal challenge will have an impact on the election underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Santos, San Andreas &#8211; Candidate Oliver Hall (Ind.) has filed a General Dispute against the Legislature for failing to table a resolution to hold the General Election as required by the state constitution. The candidate demanded a &#8216;Emergency Writ of Mandamus&#8217; for the Legislature to file the resolution calling for the summer election due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,222],"tags":[3],"ppma_author":[245],"class_list":["post-6330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-summer-2022-elections","tag-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/weazel-news.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ElectionCoverage.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":245,"user_id":9,"is_guest":0,"slug":"harry-kennedy","display_name":"Harry Kennedy","avatar_url":"https:\/\/weazel-news.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/9881c5d5ca0a4966a62e65b2ae32a6f3-96x96.png","1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weazel-news.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weazel-news.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weazel-news.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weazel-news.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weazel-news.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6330"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/weazel-news.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6638,"href":"https:\/\/weazel-news.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6330\/revisions\/6638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weazel-news.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weazel-news.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weazel-news.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weazel-news.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6330"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weazel-news.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=6330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}