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Originally posted by KSig RC
Could someone please post some of these irregularities? The only things I've read about/seen so far were either strangely bizarre conspiracy theories, or anecdotal reports, which I'm sure is not enough to perform a frigging congressional challenge - I'm way out of the loop.
What were the systemic issues in Ohio?
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The strongest credible cliams that I've read indicate that as many as 5-6,000 Democrats may have been disenfranchised. This is not a fact, but a credible allegation. Bush's margin of vistory in Ohio was greater than 100,000, so if these allegations are true, the presidential results are still valid. Where this may be important for electoral results is in local elections.
Also, there were probably shenanigans on the part of both parties. Cleveland is one of those cities that still has vestiges of a former corrupt Democratis machine. It is likely that Chicago's infamous slogan of "vote early and vote often" was alive and well in that part of Ohio, effectively nullifying Republican votes with fraud.
Good can come out of this with bipartisan voter reform, but I doubt it.
ETA as far as syetemic issues go, I don't remember the details, but its basically "let everyone vote" versus "we need to prevent voter fraud."
Hybrid Mode
