Did Gore Really Win in 2000?

[Fred314X]

Originally Posted by GregW

I believe that Mr. Gore did win the election but was prevented from taking the job by a Supreme Court corrupted by the previous administrations. This is not an irrelevant topic because I expect the right wing to do everything possible to prevent a reelection of President Obama. This includes disenfranchising as many poor Democrats as possible regardless of the law.

Ah...so THAT'S why they came out with those new voting machines here in New York, where you write your selections on a piece of paper, then walk over to a scanner to register your vote. (Either that, or someone in an office in Albany was doing some serious drugs!)

[JimMe]

Originally Posted by odanny

There was massive voter disenfranchisement in Florida. By striking mostly poor, African American voters from the rolls, the GOP, with the President's brother overseeing things and Katherine Harris being promised support from Karl Rove and the GOP, did indeed steal Florida and send the decision to a conservative Supreme Court.

Now we all know what happens when elections are stolen.

Who gets to vote and who doesn't is determined at the local level. Similarly the local Election Board (or similar town or city agency) maintains the voter rolls. So neither Jeb Bush nor Katherine Harris had a hand in any putative voter disenfanchisement. If if happened (again, where's the proof?) it was done by local officials.

The irony of your unfounded allegation is that where there are large concentrations of Blacks the machinery of elections is likely in the hands of Democrats. So if there was disenfranchisement of Blacks it likely was done at the hands of local Democrat officials. Case in point: the infamous "butterfly ballot" that caused some seniors in Palm Beach County to vote erroneously for Pat Buchanan was designed by a Democrat.