Yes, the 2016 presidential election just got weird. And I mean weird. After letting the shock of a loss sink in, the Democrats are suddenly circling the wagons around a recount of three states - Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania - that Mrs. Clinton was SUPPOSED to win over Donald Trump, not so much to overturn the election, but to bring light to "voting irregularities" or, in the parlance of the #AltRight. voter fraud.
Only this time, the people being accused of padding election totals aren't the Democrats, but the people who have been sounding the alarm on "voting irregularities" and really not kosher voting practices for decades.
No, Republicans, or Trumpeteers were not the people who found trunk loads of ballots for Al Franken in Minnesota where they kept counting until he won. We also weren't the ones who couldn't figure out how to use a Vote-O-Matic, either. Hanging chads and all that.
Overall, we in the United States will not have uncontested elections until all voters are REQUIRED to have a state issued photo ID with our current address on it, and the ballots are all paper and counted with a score of witnesses and cameras recording the process. (Even then, the vote could be iffy.) However, contesting the vote counts in cherry picked states with no possibility of overcoming the margin of victory, as is the case in all three of the contested states, is just very public pouting of the election results.
No matter what the various #AltRight pundits are claiming about the attempt to delegitimize the election, that effort was already being fed with the pounding the Electoral College is taking. (These people seriously need to take civics.) The effort to recount three states just for the heck of it is really more on the order of harassment than anything else. It's a complete waste of time and money, and just about everyone agrees - especially when Hillary Clinton's margin of victory in several other states, mostly in the Northeast, was considerably smaller, and no one is calling for a recount there.
Honestly, where was this worry about "voting irregularities" earlier when there were so many calls for the voting machine software to be checked, and the courts packed with leftist judges were claiming that having a photo ID to vote was "disenfranchising"? Why is THIS effort lauded when the #AltRight has been documenting bused in voters, and voting machines flipping votes for years? Why now when undercover video from Project Veritas exposed massive fraud in the primaries?
Oh, that's right. Because at that point, the annointed one was in the lead.
Oops.
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