Seymour Flops
Diamond Member
Do you wait to lock your front door until there is actual evidence that someone has come into your house uninvited?There is always a potential, I do not really give a fuck about potential as there is potential for cheating in every system.
Maybe one day you all will find some actual evidence for it.
Again, smart people learn from new facts. I'm sure plenty of Sec of States have run for office, especially re-election as Sec of State, while also being in charge of the vote-counting. It was never right. Now, in Arizona, we see how wrong it can be.Was this candidate the first Sec of State to run for office while holding the position?
Have you ever whined about it before?
I have "whined" about that since 2000 when Republican Katherine Harris was in charge of the vote-counting in Florida's presidential election. I preferred Bush to Gore for reasons that became painfully obvious in the wake of 9/11, even to you and your sister Democrats.
I thought it was terrible that an elected partisan was in charge of vote counting in a swing state that decided the presidential election. I wasn't gleeful thinking that she would sway the election to Bush. I was concerned that no matter honest she may have been, her counting the votes would give the appearance of an unfair election.
How much worse that the SecState is counting votes in her own election.
I thought that the Democrats would never accept Bush as a legitimately elected president, and I didn't blame them. Not just because of the Secretary of State being a Republican, but because of the USSC taking the vote counting out of the hands of the state, where the Constitution puts it.
This is the difference between me and Democrats. Democrats don't care about fairness or the appearance of fairness. They want to win and they don't care what they do to accomplish that.
A Gore presidency would have obviously been bad for the country, but loss of confidence in elections is far worse. Democrats need to check themselves before they kill the Golden Goose that is our democratic republic.