Would Republicans openly and outright steal a election?

[Benjamin Frank]

They have done so already.  At the state level: New Jersey in 1981 and Georgia in 2018.  Probably others as well.

[Benjamin Frank]

They already have.US presidential election in 2000; Georgia governor election 2018.

And basically any Wisconsin legislative state election.

2000 wasnt stolen lmao : https://www.cnn.com/2015/10/31/politics/bush-gore-2000-election-results-studies/index.html

If the SCOTUS didnt rule the way they did, what would happen very likely is the election would be thrown to the House where Bush still wins.


Also no 2018 wasnt stolen lol, and if you say it was then you have no justification to cry wolf about Republicans screaming 2020 was rigged

2000 was certainly stolen.  The Supreme Court had no role to get involved in a state election dispute that had been settled at the state.  The recount should have been allowed to continue.

Also, in both in 2000 and in Georgia in 2018, the Republican Secretary of State illegally removed 10,000s of thousands of mostly minority voters from the election rolls.  In Florida, if not Georgia, courts have acknowledged this in agreeing with voters who sued that they were illegally removed from the voter rolls.

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Voter_roll_purge_in_the_2000_Florida_election

Of course, the courts could not overturn the election as a penalty for the stealing.

[Benjamin Frank]

They stole the 2000 presidential, 2018 Georgia gubernatorial, and tried damn hard to do the same with the 2020 presidential. What are we even discussing here?

And the 1981 New Jersey gubernatorial. That's what forced the Republican Party (The RNC technically)  to sign a consent decree that mostly prevented them from cheating until 2017.

With the exception of the 2000 Federal Election, this is why they stopped for this length of time but have already tried twice (that is known about) since then.

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/Voices/2020/08/11/Armed-poll-watchers-NJs-cautionary-tale-from-1981/3701597146308/

Tom Kean Sr. was a decent person, was reelected in 1985 in a landslide and claimed to have no knowledge of what was being done to help him, and was most likely telling the truth, but some of his senior campaign staff got involved with some truly horrible people (most likely including Roger Stone.)

[Benjamin Frank]

Florida 2000 wasn't stolen--Gore was an idiot for not seeking a statewide recount in the first place, leaving enough subjectivity to the vote that it would come down to a purely partisan SCOTUS vote.

That doesn't mean it wasn't stolen.
1.There were the voters deliberately and improperly removed from the voter rolls.

2.The only reason the Supreme Court stepped in in the first place is because the Republicans ran down the clock on the recount, which was partly orchestrated through things like the Brooks Brothers riot.