Even if it’s small, that still can matter in some elctions. Small changes in tight states can make a difference. Mind you in 2000, the presidental election came down to just 537 votes in florida
Elections can be and often are won on the margins
Edit: or also provide more state wins to make republicans trying to overide state results much more difficult
Mind you in 2000, the presidental election came down to just 537 votes in florida
And that this led to the Supreme Court deciding who would be president instead of the voters. They didn’t finish recounting. How do we think it would go for us if the Supreme Court decided who would be our next president this year?
The Brooks Brothers riot stopped the counting. Gore would have won. Thousands of votes were thrown out because they were black votes and some voters both punched their votes for Gore and wrote Gore’s name in. The riot was planned so that the Extreme Court would give Bush the election.
Yes, but for fewer than you think, and in not enough places to matter.
But you’re technically correct
Even if it’s small, that still can matter in some elctions. Small changes in tight states can make a difference. Mind you in 2000, the presidental election came down to just 537 votes in florida
Elections can be and often are won on the margins
Edit: or also provide more state wins to make republicans trying to overide state results much more difficult
And that this led to the Supreme Court deciding who would be president instead of the voters. They didn’t finish recounting. How do we think it would go for us if the Supreme Court decided who would be our next president this year?
The Brooks Brothers riot stopped the counting. Gore would have won. Thousands of votes were thrown out because they were black votes and some voters both punched their votes for Gore and wrote Gore’s name in. The riot was planned so that the Extreme Court would give Bush the election.
As a discarded Florida voter in that election, thank you for speaking up on my behalf. And I still feel pretty shitty about that.
Gore absolutely should’ve won— those hanging chads be damned!