Without Late-Arriving Ballots, Republicans Might Have Lost the 2000 Election

And what if Republicans didn’t have the ability to lock up black and brown people to deprive them of their right to vote all the time? Or gerrymander to the point of stealing control of chambers all the time? Or any of the other bullshit they regularly get up to? Republicans don’t believe in democracy, plain and simple

Yeah, that whole late-arriving ballots thing was always a weird partisan spin. They were just overseas/military ballots, which have always been counted after Election Day.

Disenfranchising your military personnel. The same such personnel that went 58-42 Trump BTW. Idk why the Reds are so keen on f****** themselves over but hey... thanks I guess.

Republicans *did* lose the 2000 election. It was overturned by Supreme Court shenanigans. The team that lead the charge on behalf of Bush Jr. got their thank you in the form of Supreme Court nominations (Roberts and Kavanaugh), with one even being given command over the courts. The only reason they incessantly accuse Democratic candidates of cheating is to provide cover for the fact they do it so often. Trump was so pissed in 2020 not because he lost, but because he cheated and lost and couldn't get anyone to cheat with him any further. He even tried to ultimate cheat by unleashing a mob on Congress, but that also failed. He's a well-documented cheater, in all aspects of life, and he's in great company with the Republican Party.

There are no analytical skills on display at all .. everything they attempt to rig backfires on them.

They lost it anyway, as has been confirmed decisively in the years since with meticulously hand-counted ballots. The supreme court invented a bunch of horseshit to stop the vote counting, ordered it restarted without enough time, and then allowed the Florida Sec of State to ratify a faulty count in Bush's favor. That secretary of state, Katherine Harris, was the f****** co-chair of Bush's campaign in Florida. It was one of the most nakedly corrupt use of procedural fuckery to steal an election we've ever seen. Since that time, the Florida Ballot Project (sponsored by a bunch of news organizations) did an actual hand-recount of all 175k ballots that were rejected by the counting machines and found that if the votes were actually recounted using any "uniform standard" as per the Supreme Court's proposed remedy, Gore would have won. With any proposed standard.

Without the Supreme Court stealing it for them they would have lost.

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Not to get into the weeds of this but Trumpism and stupid solutions are like hand in glove. Trump's economic policy couldn't be more targeted towards transferring wealth from rural areas to cities. Trump's tax policy, transferring tax burden from the highly educated to the poorly educated.  (Edit originally wrote this backwards) Trump's attempt to politically fix elections?  Punish and exclude low engagement voters. Trump's base: rural, low educational attainment people who are low engagement voters.

Right, but they didn't have a corrupt ally in control of the post office who would be willing to engage in targeted mail slowdowns to create an "election sculpting operation." Remember they stole everyone's data?

Someone needs to make sure those six justices read this story.

It’s to the point that voting as a Republican is committing treason against the United States.

Think how differently the Middle East would look now if Al Gore was president when 9/11 was supposed to happen.

Republicans *did* loose the 2000 election.

Yeah, the 5 votes that handed Bush the win didn't arrive until December.

They had the majority on the supreme court; they used that to stop the counting.

So, if SCOTUS does rule that ballots not received by the election date are to be discarded, it’ll be a self-inflicted wound to the Republicans?