Bush won Florida by several thousand votes but then Democrat election officials managed to bring it down to 537 by divining that the voters who had not chosen any candidate really meant to vote for Gore. Plus the Gore team was zealously trying to prevent military absentee ballots from being counted.
That, and announcing the winner before the polls had closed in the more republican-leaning panhandle counties. That suppressed what has been estimated at about 10,000 additional (R) votes from increasing Bush’s margin of victory.
But the result is the result. AlGore’s minions couldn’t steal it.
Virginius, in Florida then there was still some evidence of voting trends because punch card ballots were still being used. Today the audit trail begins with electronic scanning. There is no verifiable audit trail where the data are transferred into digital form. Recounts are a ruse to palliate the proletariat. It would not be surprising to learn that reported votes are negotiated by executives of both parties. George Soros has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the an organization to influence the selection of state attorneys general, who are responsible for state voting systems, which are administered the SEIU, who have just committed, not that there was ever any doubt, to Hillary’s campaign.
Perhaps if we imposed biometric voter registration and then required that voters provide their biometric ID cards at precincts - no voting by mail and certainly not by Internet - we could build a trustworthy system. Today, unlike Mexico, Germany, Israel, and probably a few other countries, including, for the Brexit vote, England, we have what may be the least verifiable voting protocols in the world. The True The Vote people certainly know it. The five or six raids of True the Vote by government agencies, including IRS audits, are a testament to how important it is for our government to hide any suggestion that we are not a representative republic. We are a pay-to-play organization, a plutocracy controlled by the profit motives and fear of our presumed representatives. Read “Hllary Cash” to learn how it works. Like Venezuela, we are failing. But we have still have a constitution, even if its Supreme Court is a corrupt joke of a country club.
My direct experience with protecting data was having to prove the audit trail of data collected from analytic instruments used pharmaceutical manufacturers and chemical analysis service firms has not been touched. It was the FDA that imposed these perfectly reasonable protections against possible contamination of drugs, through accident or intention. We know what is in our drugs and whether our earth and water are contaminated but we have no assurance that our government is run by people we chose to execute our laws. We used to have paper ballots. Read about how the British voted out of the EU. Read about how Mexicans vote. We used to have voting procedures very similar to Mexico’s. Paper ballots, stored visible to all observers in each precinct, counted in each precinct, stored in sealed boxes and shipped under guard to bonded warehouses, never to be opened unless there is a legal challenge. Stalin was correct. “It only matters who counts the votes.” When local voters oversee their own counts, they have the most incentive to insure honesty and accuracy because the counting is done by neighbors.