2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Why are Sanders supporters suing California on the eve of their primary ... [View all]MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)For example, the erroneous removal of alleged felons from the Florida voter rolls, 50,000 total with most not being felons, would have probably made the difference regardless of the influence Nader had on how close it was.
Another example, had Gore's team been intelligent enough to push for a complete recount rather than specific counties, the 14th amendment argument used in Bush v. Gore would have no longer applied and he would have won by some 2000 votes. Again, had the voter purge by Harris and Bush not occurred, even this would not have mattered.
The key here, though, is that everything done was legal in that election at that time. The GOP have become experts at pushing the voting laws all the way to the line of legality without going over that line, something the bigots learned from the Jim Crow era, another example of legal disenfranchisement.