It could be that stories emerging which predict a razor-close election and lots of post-election legal actions will turn out to be like pre-2016 election polling data – fake news designed to sway voter.
Time will tell. But if we do have a close election or President Donald Trump only wins key swing states by narrow margins again, then his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, is going to have a distinct advantage – especially if legal challenges arising from mail-in ballots takes place, as many are already anticipating as well.
Here’s how.
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The 2000 election between Democratic Vice President Al Gore and his GOP challenger, George W. Bush, literally came down to one state: Florida. Those of us around back then who covered politics remember well the “hanging chad” – a tiny rectangular piece of paper on punch-card-type ballots that were examined literally under a looking glass by poll workers during several state-ordered recounts.
Eventually, the circus was shut down by Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris after Gore’s campaign kept pushing for what was amounting to endless recounts.
Harris was a Republican – and she was following state law. The U.S. Supreme Court would agree she was right to stop the recounts, giving Bush an extremely small victory.
But this time around, the secretaries of state in key battlegrounds are Democrats, and we all know that Democrats are like pack wolves – they stick together no matter what.
If the outcome of this November’s election comes down to fights over counting mail-in ballots and claims of fraud by President Donald Trump, Democrat Joe Biden may have a quiet advantage: The top election officials in many of the key states that could decide the election are Democrats.
In Michigan and Pennsylvania — two Democratic-leaning states Trump won in 2016 — the top elections officials belong to Biden’s party. That’s also true in Arizona, which Trump carried but Biden is now leading in the polls, and Minnesota, which the president has targeted.
Democrats seem confident their allies will do whatever it takes to ensure a Biden victory.
“It will be all hands on deck, but defending election results will definitely start with secretaries of state as the chief election officer,” Alex Padilla, a Democrat who was elected to serve as California’s secretary of state, told Bloomberg. “In my mind, it’s definitely good that we have secretaries in swing states committed to strengthening and defending the voting system.”
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But wait — should politics enter into this? After all, this is our country we’re talking about here, and whether this experiment in self-government succeeds.
Of course, politics enters into this, according to Ohio Secretary of State Republican Kenneth Blackwell.
You can’t take politics out of politics,” said Blackwell, now a member of the Trump campaign’s board of advisers. “It’s the way our system is set up. I don’t all of a sudden become a non-Republican when I have to make a judgment associated with my job in the political sphere.”
Trump was nearly run out of office after being duly elected thanks to the Russian collusion hoax. But after the impeachment effort failed, Democrats are now pulling out all the stops to get rid of him once and for all.
