Remember how a bunch of Republican staffers rioted and tried to intimidate the vote counters in Florida? (The "Brooks Brothers riot".) Remember when the Supreme Court halted the vote count and declared Bush has won? Remember how the eventual full count of the votes showed Gore won by all metrics?

I fucking remember that.

That's on my "If I ever get access to time travel, go visit these people" list.

Read the article.

We're gonna SLAM them, and they will be officially ON N O T I C E

Getting the Constitution passed was a monumental challenge. The US under the Articles of Confederation wasn't really a country as we'd see it today. It was more like the European Union than a unified nation.

Adopting the Constitution required 13 independent nations to give up their sovereignty to a federal government. Part of the negotiations was letting states keep certain powers - among them how they would select the President. That's the biggest there's an electoral college - each state is given votes according to their population, but the states themselves select the voters.

The Constitution doesn't even require that there be a popular election for the President. All 50 states currently choose their electors through a popular vote, but that's absolutely not a federal requirement.

One of the scariest things the GOP is trying to do is getting the state legislatures in GOP-controlled states to pass emergency laws if Trump loses in their state to change how their electors are assigned after the election - and in Bush v Gore the Court hinted that that might be perfectly legal.

Because the founding fathers had to make a lot of concessions to the already existing states that were not thrilled to give up their power and rights?

States literally don't even have to have elections. If they pass a law that the their electoral votes will be given to a winner of a raffle or a quiz show, they can do that according to the US constitution.

Did you read the article?

In a statement, the county's current registrar, Eric Olsen, emphasized that the mistakes did not come close to affecting the outcome of any race and “did not consistently favor one party or candidate but were likely due to a lack of proper planning, a difficult election environment, and human error.”

In a phone interview, Olsen said the majority of errors occurred in so-called “split precincts,” in which one precinct is home to two different congressional districts. The county's voting system did not split the presidential vote by congressional district. The state system required them to be split that way. The errors occurred trying to conform the county data with the state requirements, he said.

Other mistakes highlighted faults in the county's validation process. For example, Olsen said he first discovered the mistakes when he noticed that Precincts 607 and 608 displayed identical presidential votes. Someone had entered one precinct's data into the other by mistake.

“It seemed like an obvious typo,” said Olsen, who replaced White as registrar and eventually reported the irregularities under his predecessor to state officials.

Fraud requires intent, and it seems like there was no intent here.

Turns out there was election fraud after all. Performed by the very ones who claim(ed) the election was rigged.

I mean, it is given that Biden won this county be more than 60,000 votes already, and Virginia by 450,000.

It all tracks except the never mind part. You know they will use this, despite that it was them cheating.

It can be both