2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Will Bernie be as hated by progressives as Nader [View all]Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)Geez--
Florida--
Katherine Harris-- Bush's campaign co-chair in Florida was in charge of counting the votes. She set arbitrary deadlines and stopped the vote counting before all the votes were counted but while her candidate was (barely) winning).
Jeb Bush-- along with Katherine Harris, expunged tens of thousands of likely Democratic voters from the Florida voter rolls before the election.
Miami-Dade-- vote counting disrupted by a republican mob sent down from DC.
Volusia County-- 10,000 votes for Gore mysteriously disappear.
Judge Sauls-- orders Gore campaign to send 3 truckloads of ballots to Tallahassee, only to refuse to look at them once they arrived, costing the Gore team precious time and resources.
Theresa LePore-- "former" Republican-turned-"Democrat" who created a confusing ballot design that resulted in thousands more votes for Pat Buchanan in Palm Beach County where he had almost no support.
Florida State Legislature-- vowed to give Florida's electoral votes to Bush, regardless of the final vote count
US Supreme Court-- Dick Cheney's hunting buddy takes the case of Bush v. Gore after the Florida State Supreme Court had ordered all votes to be counted. The 5-4 decision in Bush's favor is based on a cockamamie interpretation of the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause which gave "equal protection" to only one of the parties in the suit.