https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/opinion/democrat-republican-electoral-votes.htm
Democrats Have Been Shameless About Your Presidential Vote Too
NY Times 2021
Maybe the GOP is just following the lead of the DFL when they deny election results.
Few objections were filed in accordance with the Electoral Count Act in the 20th century. But starting with George W. Bush’s victory in the 2000 presidential election, Democrats contested election results after every Republican win.
In January 2001, Representative Alcee Hastings of Florida objected to counting his state’s electoral votes because of “overwhelming evidence of official misconduct, deliberate fraud, and an attempt to suppress voter turnout.” Representative Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas referred to the “millions of Americans who have been disenfranchised by Florida’s inaccurate vote count.” Representative Maxine Waters of California characterized Florida’s electoral votes as “fraudulent.”
Vice President Al Gore presided over the meeting in 2001. He overruled these objections because no senator joined them. Part of the reason they didn’t join, presumably, was that Mr. Gore conceded the election a month earlier.
In January 2005, in the wake of Mr. Bush’s re-election, Democrats were more aggressive. Senator Barbara Boxer of California joined Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones of Ohio to lodge a formal objection to Ohio’s electoral votes. The objection compelled Congress to spend two hours in debate, even though Mr. Bush won Ohio by more than 118,000 votes.
Representative Barbara Lee of California claimed that “the Democratic process was thwarted.” Representative Jerrold Nadler of New York said that the right to vote was “stolen.” Ms. Waters objected too, dedicating her objection to the documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, whose 2004 movie “Fahrenheit 9/11” painted a dark (and at times factually debatable) picture of the Bush presidency.
5 comments:
I couldn't get your link to open. Seems you've been hearing that a lot lately. Sorry for that.
Could you provide a brief synopsis?
It's a NYT piece explaining how the DFL has been much more interested in challenging elections than the GOP.
Wow! Aside from the fact that it's common knowledge among the honest, it's surprising one would see that asserted by the New York Slimes!
I agree that the NYT is a strange place to see something like this. As with so many things recently, I don't have a problem with the losers disputing or objecting to election results. My problem lies with the DFL bitching about Trump doing so, while ignoring their own record. This is way more about rampant hypocrisy on the part of the DFL, than anything else.
What's more, they never had anything near the evidence of fraudulence Trump and his supporters have. (That's HAVE, Dan. Actual evidence you liars pretend don't exist as you do the LGBTQ Agenda!)
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