Controversial Elections of 2000 and 2004

There sure seems to be a lot of talk of stolen elections around the blogosphere today. Several blogs, such as Michael Oates Palmer at Huffington Post, note the conviction in Ohio and try to tie it into Robert F. Kennedy, Jr’s Rolling Stone article. While there are certainly flaws in the election system which need to be fixed, I already discussed how this case provides no evidence of a stolen election. Even Right Wing Nut House does a better job of covering this story than much of the reality based community.

The 2000 election also was in the news today as three of the Supreme Court justices have defended their roles in preventing the recount. Unlike the accusations of theft in 2004, there is a much stronger case for 2000 having been decided unfairly by the Court. Talk Left has already debunked many of the false statements in this article. The media consortium’s review showed that Gore would have won if there had been a full state wide recount (although he would not have won with the more narrow recount he was seeking).

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