This recall should be fun:
Setting the stage for a post-election legal challenge to the recall vote, Democrats are set to launch a national fund-raising campaign today to help pay for any legal action needed if Tuesday’s election on Gov. Gray Davis’ future is close.
Seeking to avoid what they called “another Florida-style fiasco,” the state party and a national Democratic group called Democrats for America’s Future said they hope to raise $100,000 to place poll watchers around the state Tuesday and to help with post-election legal challenges that may come up.
Note- it is about Gray Davis and the Democrats future, not the future of California. Just another arrow to keep in your quiver the next time a Democrat wants to claim that Republicans don’t care about winning elections.
mark
The democrats tried this crap in 2002 also, if you recall. They were crying about the fraud that they were sure was going to happen in Florida (Bush won by what, a million and a half votes?), and they had dire warnings in other states as well.
It seems to me that the current democratic strategy is to get the lawyers ready and to assume that there is going to be a huge conspiracy on the right to “steal” the election. In other words, democrats want to do everything they can to claim that an election of a republican is illegitimate.
Kimmitt
There’s a fairly straightforward way to defeat this, which would be to run an election which was so completely clean that it was essentially unimpeachable.
Just don’t try it in Ohio. It’d be a bit of an uphill struggle.
John Cole
Kimmitt- The election you suggest we run is impossible- that does not mean we should not strive for it, but it is impossible. Professional litigators and partisans will always find something to complain about.
AnswertheQuestion
Ahh…the party of Richard M. Daley, Al Gore, et al want to ensure another “Florida-style fiasco” (for which they were responsible) doesn’t occur. The irony is delicious.
Mark L
The optimum strategy for the Democrats is to run elections badly in the precincts that they control.
If they win the election, no problem. Republicans lack the cojones to make a stink about voter fraud, even if 110% of the registered voters cast ballots in a Democrat precinct.
If the lose the election, take the results to court, claiming that errors in precincts controlled by Democrats tainted the results, forcing the winners to wait until the court challenges are settled before taking office.
And we all *know* how long lawyers can keep an election contested. Just look at Flori-duh — where that strategy was put into play and almost succeeded in stealing the 2000 election.
cameron
I don’t think the dems,”claim that Republicans don’t care about winning elections.”, just that when they lose they find another way to skin the cat.
Kimmitt
Ding.
M. Scott Eiland
“If the lose the election, take the results to court, claiming that errors in precincts controlled by Democrats tainted the results, forcing the winners to wait until the court challenges are settled before taking office.”
Yep. There’s a reason that criminal defense attorneys tend to vote rather heavily Democratic: they understand very well the concept of their own incompetence–whether real or feigned–being used for the benefit of the client.