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Hey y’all remember that time Katharine Harris purged 120,000 mostly-black voters from the records just prior to the FL 2000 pesidential election that Al Gore won but got denied by Katharine Harris and a conservative SCOTUS? Member that?
Aw man and then we had 9/11 and Iraq II, the Sanctity of Marriage Act and the financial system collapse?
And she bought the voter list from Texas! Which. Huh.
Remember how a bunch of Republican staffers rioted and tried to intimidate the vote counters in Florida? (The "Brooks Brothers riot".) Remember when the Supreme Court halted the vote count and declared Bush has won? Remember how the eventual full count of the votes showed Gore won by all metrics?
I fucking remember that.
@winterayars @homesweethomeMrL I won't ever forget. And of course there's this
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/17/politics/bush-v-gore-barrett-kavanaugh-roberts-supreme-court/index.html
(The “Brooks Brothers riot”.)
It was a coup. Call it what it was. It was a fucking coup. And a successful one.
I mean that by itself wasn't, but yeah overall the Bush administration and 2000 Republican Party is just as guilty of pulling a coup as Trump. Moreso, even. (Actually a lot moreso.)
The country just turns a blind eye because they don't want to admit the whole bush presidency was illegitimate.
No, that absolutely was a coup. They stopped the recount to install Bush.
That's on my "If I ever get access to time travel, go visit these people" list.
I’ve thought a lot about how a Gore presidency could have panned out for the US vs what ended up happening instead.
This needs to be thoroughly investigated. If it was a fuckup, fine. If someone did some bullshit, fucking prosecute.
Read the article.
Wait, there’s more than just a headline and a summary? This changes everything
No hunny, it was just a bad dream. But you're awake and safe now, there's no such things as "articles", just headlines.
Unfortunately, it will not.
So the election officials in that state are all going to federal prison right?
We're gonna SLAM them, and they will be officially ON N O T I C E
So there was election fraud - committed by republicans. Orange man was right, he was just wrong about the party committing the fraud.
Did you read the article?
In a statement, the county's current registrar, Eric Olsen, emphasized that the mistakes did not come close to affecting the outcome of any race and “did not consistently favor one party or candidate but were likely due to a lack of proper planning, a difficult election environment, and human error.”
In a phone interview, Olsen said the majority of errors occurred in so-called “split precincts,” in which one precinct is home to two different congressional districts. The county's voting system did not split the presidential vote by congressional district. The state system required them to be split that way. The errors occurred trying to conform the county data with the state requirements, he said.
Other mistakes highlighted faults in the county's validation process. For example, Olsen said he first discovered the mistakes when he noticed that Precincts 607 and 608 displayed identical presidential votes. Someone had entered one precinct's data into the other by mistake.
“It seemed like an obvious typo,” said Olsen, who replaced White as registrar and eventually reported the irregularities under his predecessor to state officials.
Fraud requires intent, and it seems like there was no intent here.
Can someone tell me please why we allow each State to set up its own set of rules/procedures for how federally elected positions are voted on and counted?
Edit: thank you all for the education. I had actually meant my comment more rhetorically than literally (I'm aware of how the Constitution works, etc.), to spur discussion about changing it, but glad that there was some good educational information in the the replies.
4000 isn’t an insignificant sum
Turns out there was election fraud after all. Performed by the very ones who claim(ed) the election was rigged.
Pedophilia, election hijinks, organized crime: Every wild accusation they make seems to be a confession.
"Turns out"?! Trump was literally recorded calling around threatening people not to count votes. The effort to rig the election was made entirely in the open, the Republicans were basically talking about it on Fox News.
"Turns out"?!
Relax, it's a figure a speech champ. It's called being facetious.
Yeah, sorry, didn't mean to come across as aggressive or dismissive of your point. Reading it back I realize "?!" comes across as a bit much.
I'm just a bit tired that every time we learn in some new way that the Republican party consists of a bunch of authoritarians we're supposed to act as if we just learned something new.
I mean, it is given that Biden won this county be more than 60,000 votes already, and Virginia by 450,000.
Ok, but what if it was Georgia where Biden won by 12,000 votes? What if 3 counties in Georgia had the 4,000 vote error margin and flipped the state?
Then that would've been revealed in both of the TWO recounts.
Tr*mp (probably): "Total vindication! They did the election fraud in Virgina and now everyone knows it! This was the most corrupt, most frauded election in the history of Americ- what? they were more votes for Biden? Never mind."
It all tracks except the never mind part. You know they will use this, despite that it was them cheating.
It was nobody cheating.
In the presidential race, the county mistakenly shorted Biden by 1,648 votes, and overreported Trump's count by 2,327 votes. The 3,975-vote error in the margin of victory was immaterial in a contest that Biden won by 450,000 votes in Virginia and by more than 60,000 votes in Prince William County.
Y’know I can’t find Michele White’s party affiliation anywhere. Anyone know?
From: this article (yeah washington times i know, sorry, its one w/o paywall):
The most serious charges against White had already been dismissed. The Virginia Attorney General’s Office said it was forced to drop felony charges of corrupt conduct and making a false statement because a key witness had revised their testimony.
. . . In White’s case, prosecutors insinuated that the case fell apart because a witness in the county’s elections office “conveniently” changed their testimony to the detriment of the government’s case.
At Monday’s hearing, Judge Carroll Weimer asked if the government was implying that there were “shenanigans” that caused the government’s case to collapse. Herring maintained that he considered some of the witnesses’ revisions to their testimony “convenient” but said that he had no reason to believe that White was responsible for those revisions.
Uh huh.
Virginia has scanned physical ballots. There is no possible way the count was 4000 votes off without foul play. Audits in the state routinely report zero percent error rates between hand counts and machine counts.
It's actually quite notable that they dropped these charges. Youngkin is clearly trying to protect someone or something from sunlight here.
Hanlon's razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
It can be both
Maliciously stupid? Or stupidly malicious?
To the tune of Lucky Charms jingle
They're stupidly malicious!
Yes
Stop the steal! /s