{"id":1057380,"date":"2021-09-15T13:33:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T18:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1057380"},"modified":"2021-09-16T13:33:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T18:33:00","slug":"trial-date-set-in-ballot-harvesting-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1057380","title":{"rendered":"Trial date set in &#8220;ballot harvesting&#8221; case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/09\/harvest-175x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"78\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1057386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/09\/harvest-175x78.jpg 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/09\/harvest-550x246.jpg 550w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/09\/harvest-768x344.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/09\/harvest.jpg 855w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>LONGVIEW &#8211; A trial date has been set for a Gregg County commissioner and others in an alleged \u00e2\u20ac\u0153ballot harvesting\u00e2\u20ac\u009d scheme during the 2018 Democratic primary election. According to our news partner KETK, the trial of Commissioner Shannon Brown, Marlena Jackson, Charlie Burns, and DeWayne Ward is scheduled to begin Jan. 31, 2022. The case is connected to the 2018 election race for Pct. 4 commissioner between Brown and Kasha Williams. The state filed 134 felony charges against the four defendants, including engaging in organized election fraud, illegal voting, fraudulent use of an application for a mail-in ballot, unlawful possession of a mail-in ballot, tampering with a governmental record, and election fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8211; A trial date has been set for a Gregg County commissioner and others in an alleged \u00e2\u20ac\u0153ballot harvesting\u00e2\u20ac\u009d scheme during the 2018 Democratic primary election. According to our news partner KETK, the trial of Commissioner Shannon Brown, Marlena Jackson, Charlie Burns, and DeWayne Ward is scheduled to begin Jan. 31, 2022. The case &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1057380\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trial date set in &#8220;ballot harvesting&#8221; case<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1057389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/09\/harvest-175x78.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Trial date set in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153ballot harvesting\u00e2\u20ac\u009d case","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1057380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 18:21:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/09\/harvest-175x78.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Trial date set in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153ballot harvesting\u00e2\u20ac\u009d case","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1057380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1057387,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057380\/revisions\/1057387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1057389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1057380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1057380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1057380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}