How hard is it to rig an American election, really?

[Fiendish Thingy]

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[Initech]

1. It can't be that hard. 2000, 2004, 2016, and 2024 were all rigged for republicans.

Actually throw in 1980, 1984, and 1988 for that matter. The GOP has a lot of experience in this field.

[Fiendish Thingy]

2. You're confusing voter suppression with actual manipulation of vote totals

The former has actually happened, while there is no evidence (no, there isn’t) of the latter actually occurring, particularly in the years you mentioned.

[gab13by13]

3. When Republicans purge millions of voters from voter rolls

who are legitimate voters, that's manipulation of vote totals. Give it whatever name, it's criminal.

Having the Supreme Court pick the president is unconstitutional.

Routing votes from Ohio to Tennessee and back again is manipulation of vote totals. The programmer who did this was murdered, or to put it nicely, his small plane crashed.

[Fiendish Thingy]

4. Indiscriminate purging is wrong, but its not rigging

And as wrong as the 2000 SCOTUS ruling- on equal protection grounds- was, it wasn't "picking the president" even if it was putting a thumb on the scale. You yourself have written about other significant factors that impacted that election (Ralph Nader for example) without which there wouldn't have been a SCOTUS intervention at all because there wouldn't have been such a close election.

The other stuff is just kooky nonsense.

[Initech]

5. I still wonder how Reagan was able to win 49 of the 50 states in 1980.

That honestly doesn't seem like it was possible no matter how much you do the math.

[Fiendish Thingy]

8. How doesn't it add up?

He was immensely popular, even Mondale knew he was going to lose- it was one of the reasons he picked Ferraro, so he could at least make history with the first woman in a major party ticket.

I canvassed for Mondale in 84, and my county, Santa Cruz County, was one of only three counties in California that went for Mondale.

Democrats lose elections sometimes, for a myriad of reasons, but rigging isn’t one of them.

[gab13by13]

11. George Bush's brother illegally stopped the recount

that would have given the election to Gore. The election had no legal reason to be given to the Supreme Court.

I talked with friends who live in Florida, who know Florida, and they told me that had Bush's brother not stopped the recount, Gore wins.

[Fiendish Thingy]

12. Everyone has opinions

Even Floridians.

[questionseverything]

6. They cleaned the plane crash overnight, no investigation, no pictures of the scene

Velvet revolution did an interview with his widow and she went to the crash site and found a mess not the investigation we would expect, but his blackberry was gone

[liberalla]

7. Is this what you're talking about?

[questionseverything]

10. Excellent video

[czarjak]

9. Ask W?