{"id":57,"date":"2025-02-03T15:48:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T15:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/statusandstable.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/a-gop-operative-accused-a-monastery-of-voter-fraud-nuns-fought-back\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T15:48:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T15:48:02","slug":"a-gop-operative-accused-a-monastery-of-voter-fraud-nuns-fought-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/statusandstable.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/a-gop-operative-accused-a-monastery-of-voter-fraud-nuns-fought-back\/","title":{"rendered":"A GOP operative accused a monastery of voter fraud. Nuns fought back."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"ECWLNDXLIVF43HIRDKW2LBVZU4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Sister Stephanie Schmidt had a hunch about what her fellow nuns would discuss over dinner at their Erie, Pennsylvania, monastery on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"P3WV2SGCVBEZLJTCXP4XVKQCBA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The day before, a Republican operative in the battleground state falsely suggested to his nearly 58,000 followers on X that no one lived at the monastery and that mail ballots cast from there would be \u201cillegal votes.\u201d Cliff Maloney, who hired 120 people to go door-to-door across Pennsylvania urging Republican voters to return their mail ballots, wrote on X that one of those workers had \u201cdiscovered\u201d an Erie address where 53 people were registered to vote but \u201cNO ONE lives there.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on washingtonpost.com<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sister Stephanie Schmidt had a hunch about what her fellow nuns would discuss over dinner&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/statusandstable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/statusandstable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/statusandstable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/statusandstable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/statusandstable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/statusandstable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/statusandstable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/statusandstable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/statusandstable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/statusandstable.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}