Marener
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It’s on tape.that’s a lie
but Gore tried to get the courts to throw them out in 2000…military voters who clinton had sent over seas
FULL AUDIO: Call between President Trump, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on election
Channel 2 Action News investigator reporter Justin Gray has independently obtained the full recording of a phone call between President Donald Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which the president pressured him to overturn the election results.
www.wsbtv.com
I have no problem with filing lawsuits. That’s how the system is supposed to work. Oddly enough Gore’s attempt to throw out these military votes was an attempt to get Florida counties to follow the letter of the law. Illegal votes likely decided the election in 2000.
The Times reporters described the details of the Bush campaign effort to secure victory by pressuring selected local election officials to count invalid overseas absentee ballots in Florida. In particular,
Republicans focused on military ballots and counties where Bush had his strongest voting base. For example, in counties such as Escambia and Santa Rosa, Bush lawyers argued that every vote cast by Americans in uniform should be counted, regardless of the letter of the law. In Democratic counties, Bush’s lawyers argued exactly the opposite—that local election officials must follow the letter of the law and disqualify any ballot not meeting the rules.
According to the Times, this unequal pressure led to unequal treatment by local officials of overseas voters. That partisans would pursue their interests creatively, relentlessly, and even inconsistently in different places is neither a novel claim nor remotely illegal. That local election officials would respond to this pressure by treating voters unequally is, however, a more serious claim. The Times’ view—“the result was unequal treat- ment of ballots with the same flaws”—contradicts statements by Katherine Harris that the rules were applied uniformly.7 It also would seem to violate the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution, which was part of the stated grounds under which the United States Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore stopped the manual recounts.