{"id":50586,"date":"2026-10-16T07:27:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T11:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2026\/10\/16\/fact-check-yes-nc-election-workers-can-write-on-ballots-heres-why\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T07:27:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T11:27:40","slug":"fact-check-yes-nc-election-workers-can-write-on-ballots-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2026\/10\/16\/fact-check-yes-nc-election-workers-can-write-on-ballots-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Yes, NC election workers can write on ballots. Here\u2019s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C8dHBNA9Sfo?cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>The NC State Board of Elections is pushing back on social media posts claiming that if an election worker writes on a voter\u2019s ballot, it will invalidate it.<\/p>\n<p>For more Local News from WHNS:<br \/>\nFor more YouTube Content: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NC State Board of Elections is pushing back on social media posts claiming that if an election<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":50587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upstate-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}