#Florida 2000

[the-psudo]

How much detail do you remember about the recounts in Florida for the 2000 Presidential election?

Broadly speaking, the election was close enough in Florida that they did recounts to ensure that they picked the right winners, but the recounts dragged on, with each county or district doing it by their own unique rules. Some recounts were completed and then restarted with different rules. This stuff dragged on as deadlines came and went until the courts got involved and said enough.

People still argue about which rules the recounts should have used, whether the courts did the right thing (with most people saying "No"), and whether George W. Bush deserved his victory.

Do you remember which recounts were completed, which were ongoing, and which were completed and then started again under different rules? I do not. I'm thinking that I need to read back into it yet again.

But if 2020 taught us anything, it is that the precedent of Florida 2000 will be abused to harm this country. It's not going to just go away.

[lenbryant]

Republicans use this technique every election to eliminate voters they don't like. Why isn't this man in jail? He can paint in jail, right? So what's the harm?

[adequately]

小丸　スイカ

[queenofdisaster88]

my man my man my mannnnn 💝💕💞💘🩷❣️

[alwaysbewoke]

and they're at it AGAIN!!!

[originalleftist]

Republicans WILL try to overturn it, it WILL end up at SCOTUS, and SCOTUS WILL give it to Trump if they think they can get away with it.

So how do we head that off?

First, the wider the margin of victory, the harder it will be to cheat. If it's a Florida 2000 situation, a few hundred or a few thousand votes in one state, they can probably find or make up some excuse to hand it to Trump, and most people will probably go along with it. That's a lot harder to do if it's clear that they'd have to overturn several states.

Anything that goes to SCOTUS, we need five of nine justices to side with Democracy. There are three liberal justices currently. Two of the conservatives justices are hopeless causes- Alito and Thomas are pretty openly coup supporters. Kavanaugh too probably. That means when a Harris victory is contested at SCOTUS, we need to convince two of Roberts, Coney-Barrett, and Gorsuch that overturning it is too far. The bigger the margin of Harris's victory, the more likely that will be.

We also MUST win both the House AND Senate. The reason for this is that the House and Senate certify the election results, and the new House and Senate are sworn in before the certification of the Presidential election. Which means if we lose either, Republicans in Congress can refuse to certify. This certification is what the January 6th insurrection was intended to prevent, and 147 Republicans voted not to certify the 2020 election results.

Finally, if worst comes to worst, unions and activist organizations need to be ready to call a general strike in the event of an attempted coup. Some unions made plans to this effect in 2020, though they were never used. The point of such a strike would be not to pressure MAGA (they won't care, and just see it as an excuse to deploy the troops), but to pressure Democrats to stand strong and not concede, and to pressure the few remaining "moderate" Republicans to do the right thing and uphold the Constitution.

have you seen anything about conservatives refusing to certify election results and sending the decision to scotus, who will most likely side with trump? i’m going to vote and i’m writing post cards to swing states and plan to help phone bank, but i’m not sure what to do if it comes down to scotus’s decision

I mean the conservatives refusing is a worry, for sure, upside most swing states, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Nevada are controlled by Democrats (in their Sec of state offices) On top of which Georgia's Governor and Sec of State are the same Republicans who refused Trump's 2020 pressure to "find" votes

so basically, I'm not a lawyer, but if Kamala can get to 270 electoral votes it won't matter if Republican controlled states don't want to certify.

Hopefully it won't come down to the outcome in one state thats disputed, that a local Republican refuses to count votes etc, because we saw in 2000, Bush V. Gore what the court did

its worth saying though, Trump tried a number of law suits in 2020 to dispute votes, and in "Texas Vs. Pennsylvania" (Trump's ally Texas AG Ken Paxton sued Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin to overturn their results) the Supreme Court refused to hear the case and upheld a lower court throwing it out

ALL! to say, if we win big, get lots of states in the bag, we don't have to worry, so we all have to work our hardest because we DO NOT! want to be in the danger zone of the election being down to 500 votes in a swing state and asking questions about what's a valid ballot etc.

[coloursteelsexappeal]

Miami, Florida; 2008

[lxvenderghost]

🏖beach goth🦇

[leftoverslack]

I Hate Myself - To A Husband At War

things are here, and you're over there and in between: land, sea, everything i hope you're warm, and i hope you think of me in Petersburg, the way things used to be yesterday, a telegram said that you had died but i knew, but i know that it was a lie i tried to laugh but went back to my room and cried i mean our room, i went back to our room and cried retreat, and come back home retreat, and come back home retreat, and come back home retreat, and come back home

[dopeanddiamantes]

[yearningforunity]

Florida natives Oni and Nate at home in Tallahassee in 2010.

[digitalmemoriez]

pop century disney resort - 90s section

source: popcenturysite.com

[adequately]

昭和レトロな喫茶店でオトナのクリームソーダinカフェみささぎ＠広陵町

[thedawningofthehour]

In a little over a week we'll find out if we're about to have our first female president or live in Gilead.

To all my American readers who are adults and able to vote: please. Please vote. For the love of god, please. I can't fucking do this again.

[furryprovocateur]

frankly i dont know how more people werent radicalized by 2016. hillary won the popular vote (read: won) yet we got stuck with the guy who lost the election because of the electoral college. it happened in 2000 too. how do you have faith in such a transparently dishonest system

[lonestarflight]

"The Crawler Transporter slowly retreats down the incline at Launch Pad 39B after depositing the Mobile Launcher Platform with the Space Shuttle Columbia. Columbia is undergoing final preparations for the STS-78 launch, targeted for June 20. The primary payload is the Life and Microgravity Spacelab (LMS). The seven-member crew are slated to spend at least 16 days in space."

Date: May 31, 2000

NASA ID: KSC-96PC-0742