{"id":150224,"date":"2015-05-11T14:31:57","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T14:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=150224"},"modified":"2015-05-11T14:31:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T14:31:57","slug":"voting-fraud-george-galloway-launches-legal-battle-over-election-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/politics\/voting-fraud-george-galloway-launches-legal-battle-over-election-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting fraud? George Galloway launches legal battle over election defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former MP George Galloway has launched a legal challenge over his defeat at Thursday\u2019s general election and claims to have evidence of \u201cmalpractice\u201d in postal voting.<\/p>\n<p>Galloway won the Bradford West seat in a 2012 by-election but lost it to Labour candidate Naz Shah on Thursday, who secured a majority of more than 11,000 votes.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3iyCSYidNXM<\/p>\n<p>Galloway claims the results were affected by <em>\u201cfalse statements\u201d<\/em> made by the Labour candidate during the election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>He has accused Shah of lying about him on Urdu-language television and falsely claiming she was forced into marriage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/uk\/257461-george-galloway-voting-malpractice\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former MP George Galloway has launched a legal challenge over his defeat at Thursday\u2019s general election and claims to have evidence of \u201cmalpractice\u201d in postal voting. Galloway won the Bradford West seat in a 2012 by-election but lost it to Labour candidate Naz Shah on Thursday, who secured a majority of more than 11,000 votes. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,17,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-150224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-politics","9":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}