Al Gore challenged the 2000 election, leading to nasty feelings that survive to this day

[2aguy]

Al Gore challenged the 2000 election, leading to nasty feelings that survive to this day.

The problem started when the networks started calling Florida for Al Gore, based on polls closing in the eastern seaboard part of the state. But the panhandle is in Central Time, and the polls were still open. The Bush team called the networks and told them their predictions of a Florida victory for Gore were premature.

And then it turned out that Bush won Florida, by a wafer-thin margin of some 600 votes. And that decided the election.

Al Gore insisted that he had won the popular vote, and therefore Bush should concede the election. I watched him do this on national TV and the reporter looked at him with disgust. Gore was being a sore loser, a man who knew the Electoral College was the way the Constitution set up the Presidential election, but then demanded a rule change when he didn't win that way.

Al Gore, refusing to concede an election he had lost fair and square, challenged the count in four prescincts, all controlled by the Democratic Party, where he knew the Democratic Party could control the recount. A farcical process followed, whereby paper ballots were analyzed for "hanging chads" and other proof that the ballots had been counted wrong.

The Florida Supreme Court got involved. Bush asked them to put an end to the recount so that a winner could be declared but they refused. So then the United States Supreme Court stepped in, and put an end to it.

Democrats since then have insisted that Bush "stole the election" and this created a toxic atmosphere in Washington that lasted throughout the Bush administration.

The media paid for another recount, but when they finally counted up the votes and found out Bush did actually win the election, they buried the results to perpetuate the lie that Bush did not actually win the election.

For Democrats to attack Trump NOW, for saying he might challenge this election if he loses, as some sort of threat to the American Way of Life, Mom, and Apple Pie, is the height of hypocrisy. They obviously expect the media to NOT remind the American people that the Democrats did this just 16 years ago, and maybe they think the American people are too stupid to remember.

Don't forget....al gore called Bush and actually conceded the election...and then, classy as ever, al gore called him back and took back his concession.........

 

[2aguy]

Well worth the read, especially those suffering from coneasia -- or are too young to remember:


"For those whose memory of Bush v. Gore is hazy enough to make the Trump surrogates sound plausible, let’s remember six key facts about the controversy that should illustrate the difference...


1. The Recount Was AUTOMATICALLY Triggered.

Because the votes in Florida were so close — Bush beat Gore by 1,784 votes, less than “one half of one percent” of all votes cast, on the initial tally — an automatic recount of the machine votes was triggered. Gore didn’t ask for it, he didn’t have to ask for it. It’s just one of those safeguards we have so that people can’t do what Trump is running around claiming only minority populations do.
People forget this — Al Gore initially called Bush to concede. People had to TELL Al Gore that he hadn’t lost, that the election was so close that Florida’s automatic recount law was in play.
That automatic recount reduced Bush’s lead to just 327 votes out of the six million ballots cast in Florida.


2. Gore Exercised His Right To Ask For A Manual Recount.
Florida has a statutory procedure for contesting elections. Gore requested a manual recount of four counties (all heavily Democratic counties) in Florida under Fla. Stat. §102.166 (2000).
At this point, it’s important to note that Gore was not “contesting the results of the election.” He was instead exercising his statutory right to make sure that those results had been counted correctly. There was a process for this. Gore wasn’t questioning the process, he was following it.

3. Katherine Harris Certified The Election Results Before The Count Was Finished.

Remember Kathrine Harris? In 2000, she was the Secretary of State of Florida. It’s an elected position. She was a Republican. For reasons still passing understanding, it fell to an elected, partisan official to certify the results of the Florida election, instead of some kind of non-partisan civil servant.
<snip>
Harris used her discretion to reject applications from the three counties.

THAT’S WHEN SOMEBODY SUED. And it wasn’t just the Gore campaign. Palm Beach County also sought an injunction to prevent Harris from certifying the results.

It is important to note that when we ask whether Trump will accept the results of the election, we’re asking if he will accept the results as certified by the states. <snip>

4. Harris Certified The Results On November 26th, All Hell Broke Loose.
So, funny thing: after the Florida Supreme Court extended the certification deadline until November 26th, Miami just stopped counting. They figured they couldn’t possibly manually count all their votes by then so…**** it.
After Harris certified the election on the 26th, Gore sued, arguing that the count was still going on. The case was dismissed, Gore appealed, the Florida Supreme Court ordered the count to continue. BUSH appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Hence, “Bush v. Gore” and not “Gore v. WTF Is Florida Thinking.”
We can argue about hanging chads. We can argue about “butterfly ballots.” What we cannot argue is that Al Gore was accusing the election of being “rigged.” He was fighting about process.

5. The Supreme Court Stopped The Count.
Bush v. Gore should have been about whether the Florida Supreme Court was correct in its own interpretation of Florida law. But it was not. Instead, the Court found for Bush based on Equal Protection grounds. <snip>

6. Al Gore, Surprisingly, Conceded.
History treats Bush v. Gore as the end of the story, but it didn’t have to be. Gore could have asked Florida to apply a “standard” that would have satisfied the Court. The Court’s decision came on the same day that Florida nominated its presidential “electors” (you know, the people who actually get to vote for the president). Gore could have contested that. Gore could have continued to throw legal challenges against the wall. It could have gotten real ugly.


6 Facts About Bush v. Gore Worth Remembering Before The Trump Campaign Revises History To Death

No...the Supreme Court did not stop the count....the links you gave are lying......as is to be expected from left wing assholes....

Yes....each place, counting ballots in a different way to a different standard.....for you left wingers that would make sense....

 

[paperview]

Contrast what Gore did in 2000 to the class that Nixon showed in the 1960 elections when he was presented with clear evidence of voter tampering. He chose not to challenge the results as opposed to Al Gore who raised all kinds of stink but who thankfully lost.

The issue in 2000 was what the actual vote count was --- not whether the result would be accepted.

Are y'all deliberately playing stupid? Is that what today's briefing dictated?

He later proved what a total dick he is with his fraudulent movie and ultimate sellout to Al-Jazeera.

So you're against capitalism huh?

What should he have done --- just give the network away?

"The issue in 2000 was what the actual vote count was --- not whether the result would be accepted."

Aren't you just oh so clever kid?
That will be the question this time around, you children think that your silly little word games are clever, it is funny that every one of you Lefty's love this game
ALL questions are about the legitimacy of the vote tallying, and even the voting mechanisms themselves.
Your, yes YOUR "chads" came back to bite you in the ass.

That's completely incoherent. Might be time to seal up the paint cans.

The fact that the OP drew a false comparison is not up for negotiation. He did, and I demonstrated it. The thread has no point.

Prove me wrong.

And let's not forget the shenanigans that went on at the time --
Remember the Brooks Brother's riot - paid republican operatives who violently rioted to shut down the vote count?

Brooks Brothers riot - Wikipedia

And who was the guy who organized it? Trump long time friend and advisor, and all around piece of **** human being: Roger ****ing Stone.

 

[2aguy]

al gore lost the election because the people of Tennessee......voted against him and voted for Bush...had al gore won his home state, he would have been President.....he didn't win Arkansas either...another way he could have won....

 

[2aguy]

Contrast what Gore did in 2000 to the class that Nixon showed in the 1960 elections when he was presented with clear evidence of voter tampering. He chose not to challenge the results as opposed to Al Gore who raised all kinds of stink but who thankfully lost.

The issue in 2000 was what the actual vote count was --- not whether the result would be accepted.

Are y'all deliberately playing stupid? Is that what today's briefing dictated?

He later proved what a total dick he is with his fraudulent movie and ultimate sellout to Al-Jazeera.

So you're against capitalism huh?

What should he have done --- just give the network away?

"The issue in 2000 was what the actual vote count was --- not whether the result would be accepted."

Aren't you just oh so clever kid?
That will be the question this time around, you children think that your silly little word games are clever, it is funny that every one of you Lefty's love this game
ALL questions are about the legitimacy of the vote tallying, and even the voting mechanisms themselves.
Your, yes YOUR "chads" came back to bite you in the ass.

That's completely incoherent. Might be time to seal up the paint cans.

The fact that the OP drew a false comparison is not up for negotiation. He did, and I demonstrated it. The thread has no point.

Prove me wrong.

And let's not forget the shenanigans that went on at the time --
Remember the Brooks Brother's riot - paid republican operatives who violently rioted to shut down the vote count?

Brooks Brothers riot - Wikipedia

And who was the guy who organized it? Trump long time friend and advisor, and all around piece of **** human being: Roger ****ing Stone.

No asshole...I watched that on television when it actually happened.........the counters had reached the Cuban voting districts...and then decided that they wanted to go upstairs behind closed doors to count those votes...that is when the Republicans knew the rigging was going to happen....and protested to have the Cuban votes counted in the open like the rest of them......moron...thanks for lying....

left winger history revision...what a fucking joke....

 

[BluesLegend]

People people people, its Different if a Democrat challenges an election, or breaks a law, or rapes a woman, or lies under oath, or gets rich trading government favors and contracts. The first question you need to ask is, is it a Democrat and if so just toss it in the trash they have immunity.

 

[paperview]

Well worth the read, especially those suffering from coneasia -- or are too young to remember:


"For those whose memory of Bush v. Gore is hazy enough to make the Trump surrogates sound plausible, let’s remember six key facts about the controversy that should illustrate the difference...


1. The Recount Was AUTOMATICALLY Triggered.

Because the votes in Florida were so close — Bush beat Gore by 1,784 votes, less than “one half of one percent” of all votes cast, on the initial tally — an automatic recount of the machine votes was triggered. Gore didn’t ask for it, he didn’t have to ask for it. It’s just one of those safeguards we have so that people can’t do what Trump is running around claiming only minority populations do.
People forget this — Al Gore initially called Bush to concede. People had to TELL Al Gore that he hadn’t lost, that the election was so close that Florida’s automatic recount law was in play.
That automatic recount reduced Bush’s lead to just 327 votes out of the six million ballots cast in Florida.


2. Gore Exercised His Right To Ask For A Manual Recount.
Florida has a statutory procedure for contesting elections. Gore requested a manual recount of four counties (all heavily Democratic counties) in Florida under Fla. Stat. §102.166 (2000).
At this point, it’s important to note that Gore was not “contesting the results of the election.” He was instead exercising his statutory right to make sure that those results had been counted correctly. There was a process for this. Gore wasn’t questioning the process, he was following it.

3. Katherine Harris Certified The Election Results Before The Count Was Finished.

Remember Kathrine Harris? In 2000, she was the Secretary of State of Florida. It’s an elected position. She was a Republican. For reasons still passing understanding, it fell to an elected, partisan official to certify the results of the Florida election, instead of some kind of non-partisan civil servant.
<snip>
Harris used her discretion to reject applications from the three counties.

THAT’S WHEN SOMEBODY SUED. And it wasn’t just the Gore campaign. Palm Beach County also sought an injunction to prevent Harris from certifying the results.

It is important to note that when we ask whether Trump will accept the results of the election, we’re asking if he will accept the results as certified by the states. <snip>

4. Harris Certified The Results On November 26th, All Hell Broke Loose.
So, funny thing: after the Florida Supreme Court extended the certification deadline until November 26th, Miami just stopped counting. They figured they couldn’t possibly manually count all their votes by then so…**** it.
After Harris certified the election on the 26th, Gore sued, arguing that the count was still going on. The case was dismissed, Gore appealed, the Florida Supreme Court ordered the count to continue. BUSH appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Hence, “Bush v. Gore” and not “Gore v. WTF Is Florida Thinking.”
We can argue about hanging chads. We can argue about “butterfly ballots.” What we cannot argue is that Al Gore was accusing the election of being “rigged.” He was fighting about process.

5. The Supreme Court Stopped The Count.
Bush v. Gore should have been about whether the Florida Supreme Court was correct in its own interpretation of Florida law. But it was not. Instead, the Court found for Bush based on Equal Protection grounds. <snip>

6. Al Gore, Surprisingly, Conceded.
History treats Bush v. Gore as the end of the story, but it didn’t have to be. Gore could have asked Florida to apply a “standard” that would have satisfied the Court. The Court’s decision came on the same day that Florida nominated its presidential “electors” (you know, the people who actually get to vote for the president). Gore could have contested that. Gore could have continued to throw legal challenges against the wall. It could have gotten real ugly.


6 Facts About Bush v. Gore Worth Remembering Before The Trump Campaign Revises History To Death

No...the Supreme Court did not stop the count....the links you gave are lying......as is to be expected from left wing assholes....

Yes....each place, counting ballots in a different way to a different standard.....for you left wingers that would make sense....

The link I provided was to the actual Supreme Court ruling. Idiot.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Al Gore challenged the 2000 election, leading to nasty feelings that survive to this day.

The problem started when the networks started calling Florida for Al Gore, based on polls closing in the eastern seaboard part of the state. But the panhandle is in Central Time, and the polls were still open. The Bush team called the networks and told them their predictions of a Florida victory for Gore were premature.

And then it turned out that Bush won Florida, by a wafer-thin margin of some 600 votes. And that decided the election.

Al Gore insisted that he had won the popular vote, and therefore Bush should concede the election. I watched him do this on national TV and the reporter looked at him with disgust. Gore was being a sore loser, a man who knew the Electoral College was the way the Constitution set up the Presidential election, but then demanded a rule change when he didn't win that way.

Al Gore, refusing to concede an election he had lost fair and square, challenged the count in four prescincts, all controlled by the Democratic Party, where he knew the Democratic Party could control the recount. A farcical process followed, whereby paper ballots were analyzed for "hanging chads" and other proof that the ballots had been counted wrong.

The Florida Supreme Court got involved. Bush asked them to put an end to the recount so that a winner could be declared but they refused. So then the United States Supreme Court stepped in, and put an end to it.

Democrats since then have insisted that Bush "stole the election" and this created a toxic atmosphere in Washington that lasted throughout the Bush administration.

The media paid for another recount, but when they finally counted up the votes and found out Bush did actually win the election, they buried the results to perpetuate the lie that Bush did not actually win the election.

For Democrats to attack Trump NOW, for saying he might challenge this election if he loses, as some sort of threat to the American Way of Life, Mom, and Apple Pie, is the height of hypocrisy. They obviously expect the media to NOT remind the American people that the Democrats did this just 16 years ago, and maybe they think the American people are too stupid to remember.

This fails as both a false comparison and red herring fallacy; nothing but a pathetic, desperate, lame, and failed attempt to mitigate Trump's rejecting the democratic process.

 

[2aguy]

Well worth the read, especially those suffering from coneasia -- or are too young to remember:


"For those whose memory of Bush v. Gore is hazy enough to make the Trump surrogates sound plausible, let’s remember six key facts about the controversy that should illustrate the difference...


1. The Recount Was AUTOMATICALLY Triggered.

Because the votes in Florida were so close — Bush beat Gore by 1,784 votes, less than “one half of one percent” of all votes cast, on the initial tally — an automatic recount of the machine votes was triggered. Gore didn’t ask for it, he didn’t have to ask for it. It’s just one of those safeguards we have so that people can’t do what Trump is running around claiming only minority populations do.
People forget this — Al Gore initially called Bush to concede. People had to TELL Al Gore that he hadn’t lost, that the election was so close that Florida’s automatic recount law was in play.
That automatic recount reduced Bush’s lead to just 327 votes out of the six million ballots cast in Florida.


2. Gore Exercised His Right To Ask For A Manual Recount.
Florida has a statutory procedure for contesting elections. Gore requested a manual recount of four counties (all heavily Democratic counties) in Florida under Fla. Stat. §102.166 (2000).
At this point, it’s important to note that Gore was not “contesting the results of the election.” He was instead exercising his statutory right to make sure that those results had been counted correctly. There was a process for this. Gore wasn’t questioning the process, he was following it.

3. Katherine Harris Certified The Election Results Before The Count Was Finished.

Remember Kathrine Harris? In 2000, she was the Secretary of State of Florida. It’s an elected position. She was a Republican. For reasons still passing understanding, it fell to an elected, partisan official to certify the results of the Florida election, instead of some kind of non-partisan civil servant.
<snip>
Harris used her discretion to reject applications from the three counties.

THAT’S WHEN SOMEBODY SUED. And it wasn’t just the Gore campaign. Palm Beach County also sought an injunction to prevent Harris from certifying the results.

It is important to note that when we ask whether Trump will accept the results of the election, we’re asking if he will accept the results as certified by the states. <snip>

4. Harris Certified The Results On November 26th, All Hell Broke Loose.
So, funny thing: after the Florida Supreme Court extended the certification deadline until November 26th, Miami just stopped counting. They figured they couldn’t possibly manually count all their votes by then so…**** it.
After Harris certified the election on the 26th, Gore sued, arguing that the count was still going on. The case was dismissed, Gore appealed, the Florida Supreme Court ordered the count to continue. BUSH appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Hence, “Bush v. Gore” and not “Gore v. WTF Is Florida Thinking.”
We can argue about hanging chads. We can argue about “butterfly ballots.” What we cannot argue is that Al Gore was accusing the election of being “rigged.” He was fighting about process.

5. The Supreme Court Stopped The Count.
Bush v. Gore should have been about whether the Florida Supreme Court was correct in its own interpretation of Florida law. But it was not. Instead, the Court found for Bush based on Equal Protection grounds. <snip>

6. Al Gore, Surprisingly, Conceded.
History treats Bush v. Gore as the end of the story, but it didn’t have to be. Gore could have asked Florida to apply a “standard” that would have satisfied the Court. The Court’s decision came on the same day that Florida nominated its presidential “electors” (you know, the people who actually get to vote for the president). Gore could have contested that. Gore could have continued to throw legal challenges against the wall. It could have gotten real ugly.


6 Facts About Bush v. Gore Worth Remembering Before The Trump Campaign Revises History To Death

No...the Supreme Court did not stop the count....the links you gave are lying......as is to be expected from left wing assholes....

Yes....each place, counting ballots in a different way to a different standard.....for you left wingers that would make sense....

The link I provided was to the actual Supreme Court ruling. Idiot.

Asswipe.....and gore did not want an actual manual recount...of all the votes...the asshole only wanted manual recounts in specific, democrat controlled districts...which is where the issue came in....moron...

 

[2aguy]

Well worth the read, especially those suffering from coneasia -- or are too young to remember:


"For those whose memory of Bush v. Gore is hazy enough to make the Trump surrogates sound plausible, let’s remember six key facts about the controversy that should illustrate the difference...


1. The Recount Was AUTOMATICALLY Triggered.

Because the votes in Florida were so close — Bush beat Gore by 1,784 votes, less than “one half of one percent” of all votes cast, on the initial tally — an automatic recount of the machine votes was triggered. Gore didn’t ask for it, he didn’t have to ask for it. It’s just one of those safeguards we have so that people can’t do what Trump is running around claiming only minority populations do.
People forget this — Al Gore initially called Bush to concede. People had to TELL Al Gore that he hadn’t lost, that the election was so close that Florida’s automatic recount law was in play.
That automatic recount reduced Bush’s lead to just 327 votes out of the six million ballots cast in Florida.


2. Gore Exercised His Right To Ask For A Manual Recount.
Florida has a statutory procedure for contesting elections. Gore requested a manual recount of four counties (all heavily Democratic counties) in Florida under Fla. Stat. §102.166 (2000).
At this point, it’s important to note that Gore was not “contesting the results of the election.” He was instead exercising his statutory right to make sure that those results had been counted correctly. There was a process for this. Gore wasn’t questioning the process, he was following it.

3. Katherine Harris Certified The Election Results Before The Count Was Finished.

Remember Kathrine Harris? In 2000, she was the Secretary of State of Florida. It’s an elected position. She was a Republican. For reasons still passing understanding, it fell to an elected, partisan official to certify the results of the Florida election, instead of some kind of non-partisan civil servant.
<snip>
Harris used her discretion to reject applications from the three counties.

THAT’S WHEN SOMEBODY SUED. And it wasn’t just the Gore campaign. Palm Beach County also sought an injunction to prevent Harris from certifying the results.

It is important to note that when we ask whether Trump will accept the results of the election, we’re asking if he will accept the results as certified by the states. <snip>

4. Harris Certified The Results On November 26th, All Hell Broke Loose.
So, funny thing: after the Florida Supreme Court extended the certification deadline until November 26th, Miami just stopped counting. They figured they couldn’t possibly manually count all their votes by then so…**** it.
After Harris certified the election on the 26th, Gore sued, arguing that the count was still going on. The case was dismissed, Gore appealed, the Florida Supreme Court ordered the count to continue. BUSH appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Hence, “Bush v. Gore” and not “Gore v. WTF Is Florida Thinking.”
We can argue about hanging chads. We can argue about “butterfly ballots.” What we cannot argue is that Al Gore was accusing the election of being “rigged.” He was fighting about process.

5. The Supreme Court Stopped The Count.
Bush v. Gore should have been about whether the Florida Supreme Court was correct in its own interpretation of Florida law. But it was not. Instead, the Court found for Bush based on Equal Protection grounds. <snip>

6. Al Gore, Surprisingly, Conceded.
History treats Bush v. Gore as the end of the story, but it didn’t have to be. Gore could have asked Florida to apply a “standard” that would have satisfied the Court. The Court’s decision came on the same day that Florida nominated its presidential “electors” (you know, the people who actually get to vote for the president). Gore could have contested that. Gore could have continued to throw legal challenges against the wall. It could have gotten real ugly.


6 Facts About Bush v. Gore Worth Remembering Before The Trump Campaign Revises History To Death

And here are just a few of the issues asshole....but don't let the actual issues get in the way of left wing revisionism....

BUSH v. GORE

The record provides some examples. A monitor in
Miami-Dade County testified at trial that he observed that three members of the county canvassing board applied different standards in defining a legal vote. 3 Tr. 497, 499 (Dec. 3, 2000). And testimony at trial also revealed that at least one county changed its evaluative standards during the counting process. Palm Beach County, for example, began the process with a 1990 guideline which precluded counting completely attached chads, switched to a rule that considered a vote to be legal if any light could be seen through a chad, changed back to the 1990 rule, and then abandoned any pretense of a per se rule, only to have a court order that the county consider dimpled chads legal. This is not a process with sufficient guarantees of equal treatment.

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The State Supreme Court ratified this uneven treatment. It mandated that the recount totals from two counties, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach, be included in the certified total.

The court also appeared to hold sub silentio that the recount totals from Broward County, which were not completed until after the original November 14 certification by the Secretary of State, were to be considered part of the new certified vote totals even though the county certification was not contested by Vice President Gore.


Yet each of the counties used varying standards to determine what was a legal vote.


Broward County used a more forgiving standard than Palm Beach County, and uncovered almost three times as many new votes, a result markedly disproportionate to the difference in population between the counties.

 

[BluesLegend]

Al Gore challenged the 2000 election, leading to nasty feelings that survive to this day.

The problem started when the networks started calling Florida for Al Gore, based on polls closing in the eastern seaboard part of the state. But the panhandle is in Central Time, and the polls were still open. The Bush team called the networks and told them their predictions of a Florida victory for Gore were premature.

And then it turned out that Bush won Florida, by a wafer-thin margin of some 600 votes. And that decided the election.

Al Gore insisted that he had won the popular vote, and therefore Bush should concede the election. I watched him do this on national TV and the reporter looked at him with disgust. Gore was being a sore loser, a man who knew the Electoral College was the way the Constitution set up the Presidential election, but then demanded a rule change when he didn't win that way.

Al Gore, refusing to concede an election he had lost fair and square, challenged the count in four prescincts, all controlled by the Democratic Party, where he knew the Democratic Party could control the recount. A farcical process followed, whereby paper ballots were analyzed for "hanging chads" and other proof that the ballots had been counted wrong.

The Florida Supreme Court got involved. Bush asked them to put an end to the recount so that a winner could be declared but they refused. So then the United States Supreme Court stepped in, and put an end to it.

Democrats since then have insisted that Bush "stole the election" and this created a toxic atmosphere in Washington that lasted throughout the Bush administration.

The media paid for another recount, but when they finally counted up the votes and found out Bush did actually win the election, they buried the results to perpetuate the lie that Bush did not actually win the election.

For Democrats to attack Trump NOW, for saying he might challenge this election if he loses, as some sort of threat to the American Way of Life, Mom, and Apple Pie, is the height of hypocrisy. They obviously expect the media to NOT remind the American people that the Democrats did this just 16 years ago, and maybe they think the American people are too stupid to remember.

This fails as both a false comparison and red herring fallacy; nothing but a pathetic, desperate, lame, and failed attempt to mitigate Trump's rejecting the democratic process.

FALLACY!!! lol

 

[Grizz]

"The military ballots that have divided Democrats for 15 years"

On Wednesday, November 15, 2000, Al Gore lawyer Mark Herron sent a memo to Democratic recount observers telling them how to challenge late-arriving overseas absentee ballots that did not have a valid postmark on them.
This would have potentially thrown out the votes of hundreds of military members stationed overseas. In a race separated by about 300 votes at the time, these votes could have been decisive in choosing the next president.

The military ballots that have divided Democrats for 15 years - CNNPolitics.com

The shit hit the fan and low and behold....

"Retreating under fire from Republicans, Florida's attorney general, a top ally of Vice President Al Gore, said today that local officials should count absentee ballots from overseas military voters that were thrown out because they lacked postmarks."

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/21/u...tary-votes-florida-attorney-general.html?_r=0

Clearly old Al was "accepting" of the results.

 

[Pogo]

Contrast what Gore did in 2000 to the class that Nixon showed in the 1960 elections when he was presented with clear evidence of voter tampering. He chose not to challenge the results as opposed to Al Gore who raised all kinds of stink but who thankfully lost.

The issue in 2000 was what the actual vote count was --- not whether the result would be accepted.

Are y'all deliberately playing stupid? Is that what today's briefing dictated?

He later proved what a total dick he is with his fraudulent movie and ultimate sellout to Al-Jazeera.

So you're against capitalism huh?

What should he have done --- just give the network away?

"The issue in 2000 was what the actual vote count was --- not whether the result would be accepted."

Aren't you just oh so clever kid?
That will be the question this time around, you children think that your silly little word games are clever, it is funny that every one of you Lefty's love this game
ALL questions are about the legitimacy of the vote tallying, and even the voting mechanisms themselves.
Your, yes YOUR "chads" came back to bite you in the ass.

That's completely incoherent. Might be time to seal up the paint cans.

The fact that the OP drew a false comparison is not up for negotiation. He did, and I demonstrated it. The thread has no point.

Prove me wrong.

Translation: " You hurt my feelers so I quit."
You are a hypocrite and it shows.
Your game is stupid on it's face and Trump won't play.
Only a FOOL says "Oh yes, I'll accept the results" BEFORE the election, then if there are irregularities and you try and point them out idiots like you will scream BUT YOU SAID YOU'D ACCEPT THE OUTCOME.
You're an idiot and it didn't work.

Translation: You CAN'T prove me wrong.

 

[2aguy]

al gore.....the only democrat who couldn't steal an election........

 

[Grizz]

Contrast what Gore did in 2000 to the class that Nixon showed in the 1960 elections when he was presented with clear evidence of voter tampering. He chose not to challenge the results as opposed to Al Gore who raised all kinds of stink but who thankfully lost.

The issue in 2000 was what the actual vote count was --- not whether the result would be accepted.

Are y'all deliberately playing stupid? Is that what today's briefing dictated?

He later proved what a total dick he is with his fraudulent movie and ultimate sellout to Al-Jazeera.

So you're against capitalism huh?

What should he have done --- just give the network away?

"The issue in 2000 was what the actual vote count was --- not whether the result would be accepted."

Aren't you just oh so clever kid?
That will be the question this time around, you children think that your silly little word games are clever, it is funny that every one of you Lefty's love this game
ALL questions are about the legitimacy of the vote tallying, and even the voting mechanisms themselves.
Your, yes YOUR "chads" came back to bite you in the ass.

That's completely incoherent. Might be time to seal up the paint cans.

The fact that the OP drew a false comparison is not up for negotiation. He did, and I demonstrated it. The thread has no point.

Prove me wrong.

Translation: " You hurt my feelers so I quit."
You are a hypocrite and it shows.
Your game is stupid on it's face and Trump won't play.
Only a FOOL says "Oh yes, I'll accept the results" BEFORE the election, then if there are irregularities and you try and point them out idiots like you will scream BUT YOU SAID YOU'D ACCEPT THE OUTCOME.
You're an idiot and it didn't work.

Translation: You CAN'T prove me wrong.

LOL, slink away honey, you look stupid enough.

 

[Norman]

Al Gore challenged the 2000 election, leading to nasty feelings that survive to this day.

The problem started when the networks started calling Florida for Al Gore, based on polls closing in the eastern seaboard part of the state. But the panhandle is in Central Time, and the polls were still open. The Bush team called the networks and told them their predictions of a Florida victory for Gore were premature.

And then it turned out that Bush won Florida, by a wafer-thin margin of some 600 votes. And that decided the election.

Al Gore insisted that he had won the popular vote, and therefore Bush should concede the election. I watched him do this on national TV and the reporter looked at him with disgust. Gore was being a sore loser, a man who knew the Electoral College was the way the Constitution set up the Presidential election, but then demanded a rule change when he didn't win that way.

Al Gore, refusing to concede an election he had lost fair and square, challenged the count in four prescincts, all controlled by the Democratic Party, where he knew the Democratic Party could control the recount. A farcical process followed, whereby paper ballots were analyzed for "hanging chads" and other proof that the ballots had been counted wrong.

The Florida Supreme Court got involved. Bush asked them to put an end to the recount so that a winner could be declared but they refused. So then the United States Supreme Court stepped in, and put an end to it.

Democrats since then have insisted that Bush "stole the election" and this created a toxic atmosphere in Washington that lasted throughout the Bush administration.

The media paid for another recount, but when they finally counted up the votes and found out Bush did actually win the election, they buried the results to perpetuate the lie that Bush did not actually win the election.

For Democrats to attack Trump NOW, for saying he might challenge this election if he loses, as some sort of threat to the American Way of Life, Mom, and Apple Pie, is the height of hypocrisy. They obviously expect the media to NOT remind the American people that the Democrats did this just 16 years ago, and maybe they think the American people are too stupid to remember.

He was a democrat, rules do not apply. That is because of climate change.

 

[rightwinger]

If Trump loses a state that costs him the Presidency by a mere 600 votes, I would expect him to request a recount

But Trump is claiming the ENTIRE country is rigged against him in a contest he will lose by a 2:1 margin

 

[Care4all]

Al Gore did not lose the election of the citizens in Florida, and the polls were correct when they called him a winner...they had him winning because he did win.... almost 10,000 votes in Palm Beach county were votes for him, these people in Pam Beach were exit polled and told the pollsters that they voted for Al Gore, but the butterfly ballot, gave those votes to Pat Bucannon.... not a measly 532 votes, but many thousands of Florida Citizens voted for Gore in Palm Beach County, but never got those votes counted for him in the offcial count....

Pat Bucannon never even campaigned in Palm Beach County, and never spent a single dime on running ads in Palm Beach County, but he did spend time and ad money in Broward county and the Ft Laud area...

Bucannon received 900% more votes in Palm beach than Broward county, the place he campaigned in....THOSE VOTES were votes in Palm beach county of Florida Citizens voting for AL GORE.

 

[LaDexter]

Sore Loserman

 

[brummelben]

Al Gore challenged the 2000 election, leading to nasty feelings that survive to this day.

The problem started when the networks started calling Florida for Al Gore, based on polls closing in the eastern seaboard part of the state. But the panhandle is in Central Time, and the polls were still open. The Bush team called the networks and told them their predictions of a Florida victory for Gore were premature.

And then it turned out that Bush won Florida, by a wafer-thin margin of some 600 votes. And that decided the election.

Al Gore insisted that he had won the popular vote, and therefore Bush should concede the election. I watched him do this on national TV and the reporter looked at him with disgust. Gore was being a sore loser, a man who knew the Electoral College was the way the Constitution set up the Presidential election, but then demanded a rule change when he didn't win that way.

Al Gore, refusing to concede an election he had lost fair and square, challenged the count in four prescincts, all controlled by the Democratic Party, where he knew the Democratic Party could control the recount. A farcical process followed, whereby paper ballots were analyzed for "hanging chads" and other proof that the ballots had been counted wrong.

The Florida Supreme Court got involved. Bush asked them to put an end to the recount so that a winner could be declared but they refused. So then the United States Supreme Court stepped in, and put an end to it.

Democrats since then have insisted that Bush "stole the election" and this created a toxic atmosphere in Washington that lasted throughout the Bush administration.

The media paid for another recount, but when they finally counted up the votes and found out Bush did actually win the election, they buried the results to perpetuate the lie that Bush did not actually win the election.

For Democrats to attack Trump NOW, for saying he might challenge this election if he loses, as some sort of threat to the American Way of Life, Mom, and Apple Pie, is the height of hypocrisy. They obviously expect the media to NOT remind the American people that the Democrats did this just 16 years ago, and maybe they think the American people are too stupid to remember.

Sorry but you are completely wrong. Its time to stop reading the right wing propaganda