BS. It's historical fact that George W. Bush, with the help of his brother, stole the election from Al Gore. For the sake of the country Gore ultimately accepted what had happened. Trump would never have done such a thing.
I respectfully disagree.
What is not clearly understood, even today, is that Al Gore did not seek a fair recount of all of Florida, to determine who really won in Florida. Al Gore sought an obviously biased recount designed for him to win, regardless of who really won Florida.
Up until December 8, 2000, Al Gore sought a recount, not of all 67 counties, but of just 4 counties. These four counties contained about a third of Florida's voters.
37.5 per cent of the votes for Gore came from these four counties
25.0 per cent of the votes for Bush came from these four counties
So, in theory, such a recount will find 37.5 per cent of all the ballots for Gore missed by the machines. But only 25 per cent of Bush's. In theory, this gives Gore the same advantage of a recount of all of Florida that is geared to finding 100 per cent of Gore's ballots, but only 87.5 per cent of Bush's. A recount of these four counties, gives to Gore, the sort of advantage that if all the votes, in all the counties, would be recounted by 8 judges. And 7 of the judges were fair and impartial. But one of the 8 was corrupt. Any Gore ballot he found would be counted as a Gore vote. But any Bush ballot he found would not be recognized and would be set aside as a non vote. Unacceptable.
And I am not a big George W. Bush fan. I did not vote from him in 2000. The two worst presidents since Nixon were George W. Bush and Trump. Although Trump by a very wide margin. The worst President by far. The only fascist President we have ever elected. I hope nothing like this ever happens again. Gore would have been a much better President. But Bush won Florida in 2000.
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As an aside, can we please go back to having our Presidential candidates chosen by men in smoke filled rooms? And not by primaries. While this method had it's critics, it never produced a candidate who was a would-be dictator. The method by primaries seems prone to do exactly that, in 2016 and all the signs indicate it will do so again in 2024. And will likely do so in the future. I'm just asking for some method that won't do that. That's all.
Are Democrats immune to this? I don't think so. Any time in the future, if some party thinks the voting trend is going against them, they may decide to try for an Authoritarian government. Republican voters of today think the voting trend is going against them. So they support Trump. And if this effort is successful, they won't have to worry about future elections going against them.
If this effort ends up failing, who's to say that 100 years from now, that Democrats and Republicans won't change drastically. After all, 140 years ago, the Democrats were the Jim Crow party. Maybe 100 years from now, the next threat to democracy will come from Democratic primary voters?
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Now, back to my main argument. Let's deal with the usual excuses:
* The law and Florida was messed up. There was no way to get a recount of all of Florida. Gore did the best he could.
False. Counting all undervotes and overvotes was practicable under the "Protest phase" of Florida law. But quite practicable under the "Contest phase", which Gore could have used, but did not so he could have his biased four county recount.
* Gore did try to get all of Florida recounted.
Yes. Starting on December 8. After his four county recount effort had finally totally failed in court, and he had no other option. But they only had four days, until December 12 to get this recount done, way to soon to have a fair, uniform recount done. Gore's lawyers had argued for weeks that December 12 was, or probably was, the absolute deadline.
* The newspaper's recount show Gore would have won a fair recount of all undervotes and all overvotes of all of Florida.
Yes, but Gore did not pursue that. So Bush, nor his brother stole the election from Gore. You could say that Gore stole the election from Gore. Or even that Bush and Gore stole the election from Gore. But never say that Bush stole the election from Gore. Because that would be a lie.
Gore got the biased Florida State Supreme Court to support this biased four county recount. As of December 8, the only remedy was for this same biased court to administer the recount of Florida. I did not trust that court to do that. Not after they showed their true colors in November 2000. And to do so in just four days. Which they had not set up any sort of fair recount where each county would follow the same procedure, like to count all "hanging chad" ballots the same way in all counties. Which could result in as biased a recount as the one that same court pursued in November.
The Republicans have presented a false version of history of the election of 2020. But Democrats have presented a false version of history of the election of 2000.
Question:
What information have I provided is false? 
