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Democrat election fraud (view source)
Revision as of 02:48, December 19, 2020
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There has also been much speculation on what might have happened if there had been recounts under different rules. A consortium of newspapers did an investigation of multiple scenarios. They concluded Gore would have won in some versions and Bush in other versions; ironically, Bush would have won under the recounts that Gore had proposed. In a rare situation in Presidential elections, Al Gore lost his home state of [[Tennessee]] to George Bush. Had he carried that state, the whole question of how Florida voted would have been moot.
There has also been much speculation on what might have happened if there had been recounts under different rules. A consortium of newspapers did an investigation of multiple scenarios. They concluded Gore would have won in some versions and Bush in other versions; ironically, Bush would have won under the recounts that Gore had proposed. In a rare situation in Presidential elections, Al Gore lost his home state of [[Tennessee]] to George Bush. Had he carried that state, the whole question of how Florida voted would have been moot.
====Equal protection violations====
:{{See also|Bush v. Gore}}
The recount standard was done differently from county to county and sometimes from counting team to counting team.<ref>Strauss, David. ''The Vote: Bush, Gore, & the Supreme Court''. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.</ref> The Supreme court overturned that plan 7 to 2, and then in a 5 to 4 decision ruled that the time to find additional recounts method had passed. In effect, this solidified the results as they had been recorded, allowing George W. Bush to claim victory and enter the [[President of the United States of America|Presidency]].
In an unsigned per curiam decision, the court explained that state legislative power to choose electors, as conferred by the Constitution, can be taken by state legislatures at any time:<ref>https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/00-949.ZPC.html</ref>
{{cquote|The State, of course, after granting the franchise in the special context of Article II, can take back the power to appoint electors. See id., at 35 (“[T]here is no doubt of the right of the legislature to resume the power at any time, for it can neither be taken away nor abdicated”) (quoting S. Rep. No. 395, 43d Cong., 1st Sess.).}}
Independent news agencies later did their own recounts, trying to simulate how the Florida court might have done it. They found that under most scenarios, the recounts would have favored Bush, but that the court could have manipulated the process to declare Gore the winner.<ref>Kaus, Mickey. "Everything the New York Times Thinks About the Florida Recount Is Wrong!". Slate. 13 November 2001. [http://www.slate.com/?id=2058603 http://www.slate.com/?id=2058603]. Accessed 10 November 2009.</ref>
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==1996==