"This is what happens when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to
lawsuits to try to overcome the outcome of an election for president."
-
Former Secretary of State James A. Baker III.
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Bush
v. Gore: The Court Cases and the Commentary. Washington
Post columnist Dionne and Weekly Standard editor Kristol
have assembled 12 legal opinions and 62 pieces of journalism on the
recent "Five-Week Recount War."
More than 94 percent of organized labor's $83 million dollars in
political spending benefited Democratic candidates in the 2000 elections.
[Added 10/02/2008]
Gore the Vandal: When you consider how
close the United States came to electing Al Gore President, a shiver of cold fear should go through you and it
should remind you that the same party that nominated him has nominated a Marxist Manchurian candidate to be your
next President.
[Added 08/31/2008]
Appointing
new Supreme Court justices: Al Gore tried to steal the 2000 election by demanding hand
recounts in only four Florida counties -- Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade and Volusia. The one thing
those counties had in common was that the majority of voters in them were Democrats. Gore didn't care
about the sanctity of the vote in Republican-dominated counties. The Gore camp wanted instead a
selective recount in which Democratic partisans on canvassing boards counted every fly speck and dimpled
chad as a vote for their man.
[Added 06/27/2008]
Justice
Antonin Scalia: Al Gore to blame for 2000 US election mess. The 2000 presidential election
debacle was the fault of Al Gore, who should have followed Richard Nixon's 1960 example and conceded
without legal action, according to the Supreme Court's leading conservative judge.
[Added 06/06/2008]
Dr. Dean's Disaster: For seven
years now, many Democrats have cycled between smirking self-righteousness and apoplectic incontinence
regarding how the votes were counted in Florida during the 2000 Presidential contest between George W.
Bush and Al Gore. Bush won the initial count and every recount, both official and forensic,
conducted in the contest. … When Dems didn't win in Florida, accusations that the election was stolen
due to uncounted mystery votes (there might be a few dozen votes somewhere just waiting to be found, if we
only gave someone time to manufacture the ballots) were followed by snide bumper sticker whines. "Bush
was selected, not elected." "Let's not elect him in 2004 either." "Redefeat Bush."
[Added 05/29/2008]
Reminder:
Bush Won in Florida Recounts Conducted by the Media. With HBO's 'Recount' movie sure to rekindle claims that
Al Gore would have won if only the U.S. Supreme Court had not "stopped the counting," a reminder that both recounts
conducted by major media outlets in 2001 determined George W. Bush would have won anyway. Two stars of the film
have fueled the re-writing of history….
[Added 07/13/2006]
President Gore would have been no
dream. He blew all credibility forever when he called George W. Bush to concede the race
like a gentleman, only to call back an hour later to inform Bush that he was going to throw the biggest
political tantrum in history. Gore's willingness to go back on his word so quickly may explain why so
many Democrats were less than enthusiastic about him in 2000.
[Added 06/29/2006]
Remember the Florida 'Chad' Fiasco?
Uniquely, the 4.14% double-punch rate in Palm Beach County was four times larger than it was in any other
voting precinct in the United States using a punch card ballot. The double-punch rate in the presidential
race in the rest of Florida was 1%. The double-punch error rate for the US congressional and
senatorial candidates nationwide and in Florida was also 1%. What is even more strange is that in
the precincts which experienced the 4.14% double-punch rate at the top of the ticket, the double-punches for
the congressional and senatorial candidates mirrored the national average of 1%. The only explanation
for the 4.14% double punch rate at the top of the ticket is that precinct workers were pre-punching the ballots
before giving them to the voters. In Palm Beach County, Pat Buchanan did not have any supporters handing
out ballots to voters standing in line to vote. All of the double punched ballots had a vote cast for
Gore. There were no double-punched ballots for Buchanan and Bush — only Buchanan and Gore or Bush and
Gore.
[Added 05/31/2006]
Inconvenient Gore: "An Inconvenient
Truth", will debut at a movie theatre near you soon, starring a man who introduces himself these days as the
man "who used to be the next President of the United States." That man is Al Gore who, since
losing his bid in 2000 to lead this country, has given us all cause to thank a merciful God for sparing
us his unflagging lunacy.
[Added 07/28/2005]
Let the Sunshine In. The same old
myths live on about Florida, November, 2000. … These charges have been rebutted before, but
with so much misinformation and people's short memories simply accepting the charges, many risk
believing that they are true. There has also been new research — of which most
people may not be aware — which helps replace myth with reality.
[Added 04/12/2003]
A Double
Standard at CNN: The double standard at CNN is: when those on the right do
something it is fishy and needs an expose. When the same thing is done on the left, it is
just "the given."
[Added 11/17/2001]
Okay, Now I'm Scared: I
fear that Americans may never again hold a presidential election in peace. For that, we can thank the
Clinton-Gore team. Bin Laden, in his wildest fantasies, never struck a blow so hard and cruel.
[Added 9/8/2001]
Liberals Refuse to Get Over
Election: Once upon a time winners won, losers lost, and that's how elections worked. Today,
leftists in Congress demand President Bush appoint those who opposed him. They're not quibbling about a
job or two here or there. They're talking about — pitching a fit about — his ability to staff hundreds of
critical federal positions.
[Added 8/16/2001]
Florida Voters Sue for Right to Be
Ignorant: An activist group deems it somehow "discriminatory" that the Florida Election Reform Act
calls on voters to "study and know candidates and issues," "bring proper identification to the polling
station" and "know how to operate voting equipment."
[Added 7/21/2001]
Wyoming
Had Higher Percentage of Untallied Votes Than Florida: In
a story not picked up by the establishment press, predominantly
Republican Wyoming had an even greater rate of unrecorded presidential
votes last year than Florida did.
Ballot,
machine problems to blame for uncounted votes in 2000 election. Problems
with ballots, equipment, voter registration and polling places
are to blame for the 4 million to 6 million uncounted votes in the last
presidential election, a study released Monday [7/16/2001] said.
Central Findings:
• Between 4 million and 6 million votes for the
presidency were discarded following the last
Election Day, Nov. 7, 2000.
• 1.5 million to 2 million of those were discarded
because of faulty, aged equipment or poorly designed ballots.
• 1.5 million to 3 million votes were lost because of
registration foul-ups.
• 500,000 to 1.2 million were lost because of confusion
at polling places on Election Day.
• An unknown amount were discarded because of
problems with absentee voting.
• Florida was just one of many states with problems —
others included Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, South Carolina and Wyoming.
• More votes were lost or spoiled in New York City and Chicago than in Florida.
Suggested Remedies:
• Retirement of punch-card machines and pull-lever voting machines.
• Installation and use of optical scanning machines.
• Equip polling places with laptop computers programmed to
cross-reference voter registrations.
• Replace absentee ballots with in-person voting before Election Day.
• Provide provisional ballots when registration cannot be verified
at the polling place.
Estimated cost of changes: $400 million per year leading up to 2004 presidential election.
[Added 5/5/2001]
$5,000
settles election case: Allegation involved
cigarettes for votes of homeless men. A New York philanthropist and major
Democratic donor will pay a $5,000 forfeiture and not contest a civil complaint
filed Thursday by prosecutors probing allegations that she gave packages of
cigarettes to homeless men in Milwaukee while drumming for votes in the fall
presidential election.
[Added 3/27/2001]
Independent
Review Backs Bush's Florida Victory: An independent,
nonpartisan analysis of Florida ballots shows once again that President Bush was the
legitimate winner of Florida's electoral votes in the November election.
[Added 3/14/2001]
INS
involved in voter fraud: 80,000-plus criminals
naturalized to increase support for Democrats
[Added 3/14/2001]
Recount
couldn't elect Gore: The press has allowed the Democrats,
led by the DNC's Clintonoid chairman Terry McAuliffe, to continue to claim the Presidential
election was stolen. They've done so by refusing to report on or by casting doubt
on the accuracy of an independent recount showing conclusively that Mr. Bush actually won
the popular vote.
[Added 3/14/2001]
It's
Official - Bush Won! The latest recount again confirms that
George Bush won the Florida popular vote on election day. Most of the major media reported
the story, but the New York Times didn't see it as "fit to print".
[Added 12/30/2000]
We
Distort, You Figure It Out. This, of course, is no longer
journalism. It may be entertainment. But it is not responsible information
upon which we can any longer rely.
[Added 12/30/2000]
Overlooked
Fraud in Florida: There were 62,205 undervotes
statewide. There were 117,596 overvotes, ballots on which the counting
machines recognized votes for two or more presidential candidates and
therefore counted none of them. Florida law says that ballots should
not be voided if the intent of the voters can be ascertained. Vice President
Gore and his supporters have been saying that these ballots have not been counted
and the voters who cast them have been disenfranchised. They were all counted.
[12/22/2000]
Resurrecting
Al Gore: If you feel weary after Gore's
five-week battle to steal the election with the help of an activist Florida Supreme
Court, it is nothing compared to what lies ahead.
[12/15/2000]
Sleazy
Lawyers Hold Democracy Hostage
Trial lawyers who have studied only tactics for winning and not the moral consequences of
doing so are the ultimate practitioners of situational ethics. The result is that
they have none, and are depriving our country of its morals as well.
[11/24/2000]
Excellent
editorial by Peggy Noonan, in which she says, "There
is no evidence that the absentee ballots of felons have been challenged. But the absentee
ballots of members of the military were challenged. In the most shameful and painful act
of the hand counts, the Democrats on the ground, and their operators from the Democratic
National Committee and the state organization and the Gore campaign, deliberately and
systematically scrutinized for challenge every military absentee ballot, and knocked out
as many as they could on whatever technicality they could find or even invent."
[11/17/2000]
Should
California Abandon Its Winner-take-all Electoral
System? (CNSNews.com) - If California's electoral system were like Maine's and
Nebraska's, then Texas Governor George W Bush would have walked away with 23 additional
electoral votes, more than enough to claim the presidency and render Florida's results moot.
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