Posted on 09/07/2020 7:00:49 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
This is going to be a close election. It was always going to be close. Talk of a Biden “blowout” or a Trump “landslide” is just that — talk.
Since the election will come down to a few battleground states — or perhaps one or two — counting votes in those states will be critical. And the question of who gets to do the counting matters more in this election than in any other since the 2000 presidential contest.
Then, Republicans had the advantage in Florida with a GOP secretary of state. Katherine Harris followed the letter of the law in stopping the recount and the Supreme Court agreed. But most election legal experts think that Harris had some legal leeway in determining when to stop the recount.
As it turns out, a later study by a group of several leading newspapers found that, in most instances, Bush would have won even if disputed ballots had been counted.
But Harris’s actions in interpreting the law was decisive to a Bush victory.
Now, in 2020, the same scenario may present election counters with similar decisions. And in most battleground states, it means that Democrats will be making those decisions.
If the outcome of this November’s election comes down to fights over counting mail-in ballots and claims of fraud by President Donald Trump, Democrat Joe Biden may have a quiet advantage: The top election officials in many of the key states that could decide the election are Democrats.
In Michigan and Pennsylvania — two Democratic-leaning states Trump won in 2016 — the top elections officials belong to Biden’s party. That’s also true in Arizona, which Trump carried but Biden is now leading in the polls, and Minnesota, which the president has targeted.
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Yes, Democrats will burn America to the ground--in fact they want to.
Republicans love America.
Need proof?
Kennedy...Romney...Warren...
Need I go on?
This is what I fear
When has a political campaign ever admitted that they were in trouble before an election?
It just doesn't happen.
Republicans love America.
Republican voters love America. Swamp Republican politicians certainly do not.
Agreed. VERY close, and we need every possible person to show up and vote. And I DO mean “SHOW UP”!
They love CCP Money.
I lived in CT from 2006 - this past June. I could not vote unless I showed my ID.
People in Ohio, Pennsylvania, 2 major battleground states stun me with their apathy, my own mother who draws a large pension from the teachers union refused to vote in the last election and the 2 before because she doesn’t like any of the candidates, the guy across the st quite well to do and a gun enthusiast wit a boat, 2 trucks 3 motorcycles say he has never voted.
Well that is how you get shitty local politicians you fools.
You have the chance to make a choice and be involved.
I lived in Tx for 27 years and people there VOTE they vote on all the issues, right down to the dog catcher.
Wolf aint making any friends.
He will leave office wearing his ass for a hat.
You get what you vote for.
MY God I had to pinch my nose to vote for McCain and Romney, but Obama was just not acceptable in any way.
At least we had a chance to control McCain and Romney, make them our pet turds.
All I am saying is in Mi we no longer have the power to protect a slim Trump lead.
Then widen the gap!
That statement is on the cover of the democrat hand book Marx is on the back cover.
Awesome!
Hope you are well.
Yep vote in person like your life depends on it.
I normally vote early, and lots of folks here think early voting is rife for fraud, but it has never been my experience.
I just got registered here in Ohio last week, it will be interesting to see how voting here goes.
They take voting seriously in Tx and I am sure they do here as well.
I will crawl over broken glass to get to the polls.
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