Posted on 05/28/2008 5:53:17 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
It didn’t work so well in 2004 when a huge turn out guaranteed Bush’s election with more votes for him than any presisdent in history. Vote fraud couldn’t over come the 3 million plus margin. I love how folks lied in the exit polls as well making Kerry think early on that he had it in the bag when he didn’t in the end!
I think it was Sandra who said about the hanging chads when reading the directions..."Now, what's so hard about that".
Remember, Gore didn't carry his own state. That would have given him the election no matter what happened in Florida. Shhhhhh....No one was supposed to notice.
Me too...of course, they only wanted votes FOR Gore to count.
They made Warran Christofer look like a nice guy, and Baker look like a cut throat. They did their best to trash the Secretary of state, and just about anyone else who didn’t buy into their swill.
Republicans pulled in a massive number of attornies, and the Dems just brought in enough to get them by.
In the end someone had mentioned they would surely address the fact that some media reps had conducted their own count, and Bush won. That wasn’t even addressed in the move. Baker came off as having pulled a fast one, and the Democrat bowed out rather than protest any longer.
The SCOTUS was portrayed as having stolen the election on behalf of Bush, but of course the Florida Supremes were all every reasoned.
Typical leftist replay...
....Cops were catching people at the polls who had outstanding warrants....I loved that strategy!!....of course to the Left that constituted “supression”....Florida has been inventive in the past in catching nefarious characters....remember when they went after the hunting and fishing licenses of dead beat Dads?...those bums raised a stink too, saying it was “unfair”.
I also remember that Gore got the felon vote.
One thing I do remember about Orange County (Orlando) voting in 2000 was that the absentee ballots mailed out by the Democrats for their voters were constructed to be mailed back to Democrat HQ in Orange County instead of the Supervisor of Elections office as prescribed by law.
I believe that state law has since changed that all absentee ballots must come from the Supervisor of Elections.
I just did an internet search on “Greg Palast, Lorien.”
Very interesting! Also found this book by that guy,
http://tinyurl.com/44tn4o
Sure...Gore won Florida...the old canard ay? Even after numerous recounts show he never won the state. You can be sure though that ‘Rat voter fraud was occurring in Fl. with the NY-Fl-Israel dual citizenships double voting options. Plus they did not allow
some military votes to count and the media erroneously called the state for Gore early on election night. The ‘Rat party DID steal the Wa. state Gov. race back in 2004...they fraudulently stole it for Gregoire via fake homeless votes in Seattle.
Therefore it really was the 7-2 ruling that is the important one. It was 7-2 that said that what Florida was doing was illegal. It was 5-4 that said it’s just too late to do anything about it.
Perhaps they would use the book “At Any Cost: How Al Gore Tried to Steal the Election” by Bill Sammon for “Recount II”....nah, I can’t believe I just wasted my time even typing that suggestion....that would be too much like right! And we know that the MSM and the Hollywood elite don’t care about right....
Hanging chads, pregnant chads, gloming voter intent and if all else failed, fold and spindle the ballot in order to get the correct chad to fall out on the floor...
All three rulings were important. The 9-0 ruling, which was early on, basically told them to stop changing the rules after the fact (which violated US elections laws) and told them to try again. The 7-2 ruling said your method of recount still violates the law (but I thought the 'equal protection' angle was weak), and the 5-4 ruling said we had enough stop this non-sense, the legal deadline for having your votes counted is here. Both the 7-2 ruling and the 5-4 ruling was on Dec 11, which was just one day prior to the deadline for Florida to submit their list of Electors and have them count.
Gore lost in Florida. Get over it.
The thing that pissed me off the most about the movie, which I otherwise highly enjoyed, was that it glossed over the actual returns from Florida on election night. Bush led in the returns the entire night. CBS called Florida for Gore based completely on exit polls, which of course we now know were horribly wrong because they did not poll absentee voters who went heavily for Bush. Bush was leading by more than 50,000 votes as late as 1:00 a.m. The networks finally called it for Bush at around 2:00 a.m when it was clear that there were not enough votes left to be counted for Gore to possibly pull ahead. In fact, Bush was still ahead by over 20,000 votes at the time with 99% of the votes counted.
Then, suddenly, after the election was called for Bush, Broward County dumped a bunch of returns and Bush's lead went to less than 2,000. This has NEVER passed the smell test to me and and was never properly investigated. The margin suddenly shrank to just under the level that triggered an automatic machine recount. There was no confusing butterfly ballot used in Broward County, no allegations of voter suppression or any of that crap.
What happened in Broward County at 1:30 a.m. on election night? Will we ever know?
I bet "Trigger" could've counted the votes better than the Dems. Roy taught him well.
“I believe it was 7-2 that what the FSC did was illegal..”
I liked Recount. It made the Republicans look more competent and determined than the Dems who came off as sissy babies.
Oh where did John Wayne go....?
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