{"id":27496,"date":"2018-11-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/new-adelaide-lord-mayor-slams-local-elections\/"},"modified":"2018-11-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T00:00:00","slug":"new-adelaide-lord-mayor-slams-local-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/new-adelaide-lord-mayor-slams-local-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"New Adelaide Lord Mayor Slams Local Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Lord Mayor elect Sandy Verschoor says the local government elections couldn\u2019t be made more confusing if you tried.<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe whole system needs to be overhauled,\u201d Ms Verschoor told FIVEAA breakfast on Monday. \u201cIt was like they got a group of people together in a room and said, \u2018How can we make this the most difficult thing possible so people can\u2019t vote?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were three concurrent elections. 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