Historically, and the same is true this year, each state certifies their results and that is when the final tally becomes "official". That happens I think whenever the states want, but before the electoral college votes.
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Yes. Seriously (after my light remarks to Thrice) we have a situation where the media was almost entirely against Trump and then we see the media declaring a winner, with not even as much as a passing glance for any irregularities.
Yeah, I've always felt that no matter who is winning, the media tends to rush to declare a victory. If it is close and a recount is called for, they kind of downplay the recount and it doesn't usually get very much press. I guess it kind of makes sense because recounts very rarely alter the vote by more than a few hundred votes. But that doesn't mean they can't. Like I said, it is always possible that a machine malfunction occurs somewhere, or just plain human error that caused a misreporting of the correct numbers. It's rare, but not impossible, and if the margin is close I think it is important to check for those things as a matter of course before certifying anything.
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Also, the vote count there was genuinely in dispute, being only a few hundred votes apart and what with all the ambiguous votes from "hanging chads" and the like. The edge cases mattered.
I would be a bit careful with that attitude simply because we've had so many mail in / provisional ballots this year compared to 2020 when pretty much everyone was voting in person.
Georgia is not finished with the vote counting. AFTER they are through counting the votes, they will then hand count the votes.
Two out of the last three elections the Democrat Party has lost, they have directly attacked the legitimacy of the American election process. HR1, the most important bill in each congressional session has been focused on nationalizing election standards so the Electoral College can be abolished because the Party views it as illegitimate. The entire Democratic Party just spent hundreds of millions of dollars, most of it taxpayer money, claiming the 2016 election was illegitimate without a shred of proof foreign tampering, which has been going on since before we were a country so we banned it in our Constitution, had any effect on the election.
Correct. The final margin was 537. The Bush team wanted all the votes counted using the rules as they existed when the election began. The Gore team felt the election administration in four key Democrat counties could have permitted enough irregularities that, if corrected, would have changed the result. Later, they decided to contest the counting of the ballots in those counties altogether to try and completely revise the method of recording how each vote was recorded and therefore cast (discerning voter intention on over votes, chads, etc.). They wanted to change the rules after the election but only in counties that favored their party.
This is BS. There were multiple reports of foreign tampering in 2016 corroborated by the FBI. Mostly through mass manipulation of social media. So much so, that it indicted foreign nationals for it.
Again, if we would like to compare the two situations... Trump's current actions would be tantamount to Bill Clinton using every cabinet secretary to influence the recounts, as well as having just rushed through a supreme court nominee a few days earlier so they could vote in the Bush v. Gore case. It would have additionally seen Gore contest places like Nevada, Arkansas, and West Virginia where he was only a few 10's of thousands of votes behind Bush.
If Gore and Florida Chads hadn't of happened, Trump would still be doing what he's doing.
But almost nobody, instead of 40 percent of the country, would be listening to them.
Maybe, but I doubt it.
I believe you have an incorrect view of the root of the problem. Trump is not the root of the problem. Not even close! Both sides are at a point where they feel their way of life is being jeopardized or at risk. When people start to feel that way, they act out in the nastiest and most vile ways they can. This is our animalistic nature to fight at all cost to preserve ourselves and protect the pride. It has Zero to do with Trump bc after Trump there will be more Trumps!!!!!!
