{"id":63552,"date":"2022-05-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/63552\/wtf-lebanese-ballot-box-shows-up-in-oregon"},"modified":"2025-10-15T14:25:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T14:25:43","slug":"wtf-lebanese-ballot-box-shows-up-in-oregon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/63552\/wtf-lebanese-ballot-box-shows-up-in-oregon\/","title":{"rendered":"WTF: Lebanese Ballot Box Shows Up In Oregon"},"content":{"rendered":"Want to laugh\/cry?<br \/>  <br \/>  A ballot box holding Lebanese votes from expats has reportedly shown up in Portland, Oregon.<br \/>  <br \/>    <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"ar\" dir=\"rtl\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MawlawiBassam?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MawlawiBassam<\/a> <br><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%D8%A5%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%BA%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA_2022?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OI8HloEGmX\">pic.twitter.com\/OI8HloEGmX<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Larissa Aoun (@LarissaAounSky) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LarissaAounSky\/status\/1523973641037303812?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 10, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>  <br \/>  <br \/>  Funny enough, there just so happens to be a city named Lebanon in Oregon, but you&#8217;re just off by around 11,000 Kilometers.<br \/>  <br \/>  Other ballot boxes coming from Russia and other European countries have arrived safely in Lebanon, thankfully.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to laugh\/cry?<\/p>\n<p>A ballot box holding Lebanese votes from expats has reportedly shown up in Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":427849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ai_generated_summary":"","_preview_accessed":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"media-embed-type":[],"class_list":["post-63552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wtf"],"authorship":[144],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.8 (Yoast SEO v27.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>WTF: Lebanese Ballot Box Shows Up In Oregon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Want to laugh\/cry? 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