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[Robert A Cook PE]

Damn.

Just damn.

[lady lawyer]

Before the ridiculous Florida Supreme Court decision in 2002, the law governing challenges to elections made it nearly impossible to disturb polling results -- courts everywhere understood that little mistakes and irregularities happen everywhere, and that you would have electoral chaos if courts interfered every time it happened.

I know this because back in the 80's I won a very close school board election, and someone unsuccessfully challenged me, raising the issue that precinct lines and school district lines didn't match, and some people got the wrong ballots -- potentially enough to change the result. The challenger had to show that correction of the error would have changed the result -- not just that it might have. It was impossible to do that.

It was very apparent to me that the outrageous decision of the Florida court would open the floodgates. The Democrats could destroy our electoral system. But, of course, they don't care what they destroy.

[BibChr]

More evidence that the scorched-earthers were strategically dead-wrong, and reason to be thankful that other would've-been McC voters thought more wisely.

Dan

[88keys]

"The briefs weren't needed on Oct. 7, but none of the attorneys seemed to think he'd wasted precious billable hours on a labor of political love. Mr. Hearne believes the lawyers' presence all over the state may have had a deterrent effect on the Democrats' legal team: "We succeed when we deter them from filing their suits."

That's the good news..."our guys" knew the lawsuits (among other dubious victory strategies) were likely coming, and they were able to do something about it. The bad news of course is, it may not be possible to anticipate every "dirty trick", or to remain eternally vigilant...

Excellent article, and it does give one hope, anyway! And being optimistic, if we can be vigilant, and everyone from the poll-watchers to the legal-eagles does their own part, then hopefully most unethical and/or illegal attempts to influence the outcome of future elections will also be prevented, or at least exposed after the fact and the perp's deposed and incarcerated...!

[DoctorZIn]

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