Please contact the City Clerk's office at 303-582-5251 x 11 or cityclerk@cityofcentral.co for more information. COVINGTON, La. Democrat Samuel Tilden won the popular vote nationwide but, with 184 electoral votes, was one vote short of the then-necessary 185 electoral votes to become president. Learn more about Mailchimp's privacy practices here. Maarten Schenk is our resident expert on fake news and hoax websites. The 1984 race for Indianas Bloody 8th trained a generation of politicians in the scorched-earth tactics of recounts. Brian Kemp, who like Raffensperger refused Trumps calls to undermine the 2020 result. "It was a landslide election and everyone knows it, especially the other. Up until this point, the generally more congenial, bipartisan-minded GOP leaders in the House mostly considered Gingrich a rabble-rouser on the right who typically was too confrontational to be productive. Kahn's reports can be heard on NPR's award-winning news programs including All Things Considered, Morning Edition and Weekend Edition, and on NPR.org. But Shumways job was to be in charge of the counting of the ballots that the task force decided to count. A video shows Jim Jordan saying the 2020 "election was stolen." By Ciara O'Rourke December 20, 2022 "The results only become official after the election department has compared the paper. With each states delegation having only one vote, the Democratic-controlled House representing a Democratic majority of states would end up making Democrat Tilden the president, something the Republicans wouldnt go along with. Just like in the election of 1876, several swing states in the midst of political turmoil have submitted dueling slates of electors, one (based on the popular vote) for Biden and another (reflecting the will of the state legislature) for Trump. | President Trump took it to court, and it lost. Thats the system, right? McCloskey jumps ahead three votes, a headline read on April 11. It was pretty clear they were gonna count, Halloran said, until their guy won., Republican members wore buttons that said "Thou Shalt Not Steal" after McCloskey had finally been declared the victor in April, shown above in the bottom left among a collection of buttons from the 1984 and 1986 Indiana 8 campaigns. They note, Roger Stone claims he helped organize the so-called Brooks Brothers Riot, Scalias son worked for a law firm that was defending George W. Bush, Justice Clarence Thomass wife worked on the Bush transition team. The Constitution provides that the vice president shall be the president of the Senate, but President Ulysses Grants veep, Henry Wilson, had died the previous year and Grant hadnt replaced him; the president of the Senate in 1876 was Senator Thomas Ferry of Michigan, a Republican. If the media chooses their 2020 course, Biden may prevail. All Rights Reserved. You can also contribute via, Fox News wants its viewers angry enough to watch but not angry enough to riot, This story is part of a group of stories called. IE 11 is not supported. They created a feeling among their party that the system is corrupt., Gingrich, Sautter agreed, played a role that Donald Trump would reprise that of chief political demagogue. 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. They considered it out of bounds. Trump claimed that the election was "stolen" in part by a voting equipment and software company, Dominion Voting Systems, he suggested is biased against him and also has "bum equipment." Facts. He can often be found at conferences and events about fake news, disinformation and fact checking when he is not in his office in Belgium monitoring and tracking the latest fake article to go viral. In this sense, 2020 has been different than any contest since the Civil War, as President Trump continues to claim that President-elect Joe Biden "stole" the election from him even though 538. Of course, said Bucshon, who didnt vote to impeach Trump but also didnt vote to object to the certification of the Electoral College counts in Pennsylvania and Arizona. I try, he said, to promote confidence in our electoral process. And in the end, it showed the ways short-term wins can lead to long-term consequences namely, the erosion of confidence on the part of the public and even the politicians themselves in the fairness of an electoral system elementally important to democracy. As we said in our earlier reporting about the Edison Research data found on the New York Times website: The important factor Lead Stories found is that the graphics-friendly ratios in the scraped data only appear to have at most three decimals so the biggest change they can register is 0.001 (or 0.1%). They ought not to be counted., Clay, the other Democrat, concurred. The other development in the lucrative stolen election racket is how many local mini-me types are mimicking Trump. By Mack Green . It is difficult to imagine a clearer case, Scalia wrote in his opinion. Dont waste any sympathy on them. The views expressed by contributors are their own and not the view of The Hill, by Stephen Stathis, opinion contributor - 04/11/22 8:30 AM ET, by William S. Becker, opinion contributor, The Hills Morning Report McCarthy urges Biden to negotiate on debt, What is ChatGPT? on Nov. 8, 2022. Thats a serious charge, he acknowledged, but its true.. It was too late to take them out. Vous pouvez modifier vos choix tout moment en consultant vos paramtres de vie prive. We will not assume its business as usual. THE FACTS: To be clear, no widespread corruption was found and no election was stolen from Trump. What choice does a self-respecting Republican have except confrontation? he said. And I base this, Wright went on, upon facts and statements which I consider to be reliable. There would be plenty of time, hours and then days, weeks and then months, to debate the facts as well as their relative reliability. There's Culp, who's now running for Congress in Central Washington's 4th . You can reach her at Brooke.Singman@Fox.com or @BrookeSingman on Twitter. The overall total in. I dont know what Panetta would say. Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat who is running for governor in 2022, believes there is an appetite for accountability that has elevated secretaries of state like her who have pushed back on GOP election lies. I understand, of course, the temptations on the part of members on the other side who feel keenly about this closely contested election, to speak of this resolution as an exercise by a ruthless majority of raw power, Jim Wright said. ", "These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long," Trump tweeted. But they became scrambled at the precinct level, Panetta stressed. During a Tuesday hearing on new restrictive election laws passed by state legislatures, Republican senators decried a . They had been rightfully held back by other clerks. Remember, WE are the Party of Law & Orderrespect the Law and our great men and women in Blue. We simply lack jurisdiction to proceed. Indiana 8, he basically (and, given his role in 2000, ironically) decreed, was not a judicial matter. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, They'd been calling on the military to restore Bolsonaro to power, even though he lost his reelection . Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. An outrage industry, Jerry M. Berry of Tufts University writes, that promised immediate and enduring advocacy until Trump was restored as president.Since the 2020 election, we have painfully experienced how democracy can be undermined when there is no shared understanding of basic facts and empirical reality.George Washington in his Farewell Address anticipated a day when political polarization might erode faith in the effectiveness of government and turn our fellow citizens against each other. Democracy, Decency, and Camus. On May 1, 1985, though, not quite four full months after he told McIntyre to sit as he administered the oath of office to the others, Tip ONeill administered the oath to McCloskey. Proof that, if. You could hear the same argument throughout all of Foxs programming Wednesday night. Because voters think the presidential election was stolen. Our next congressman! What the hell are they talking about? Alan Diaz/AP Photo, I came out of there, said Ben Ginsberg, one of the top Republican election attorneys of the last generation, who worked on Indiana 8 and then again in Florida in 2000, thinking Democrats will lie, cheat and steal to take elections., Sautter, too, got to Florida in 2000 with the opposite version of that exact lesson from Indiana 8. Cisse, 21, was charged with receiving stolen goods over $1500 three counts and obstruction of an officer in execution of duty two counts. Trumps involvement could change that, said Trey Grayson, a Republican and former secretary of state in Kentucky. THE HILL 1625 K STREET, NW SUITE 900 WASHINGTON DC 20006 | 202-628-8500 TEL | 202-628-8503 FAX. Ashli Babbitt, the woman shot and killed in the Capitol Wednesday, appears to have been a QAnon adherent. I think hes a big driver of the distrust.. Because on November 13, 2020, six days before the Central City News article came out, Lead Stories already did an analysis of voter fraud claims being made on the basis of New York Times data by a user named "PedeInspector" on a forum website. Recently, Gableman has tried to downplay his past comments. "Resist trying to make things better": A conversation with internet security expert Alex Stamos. Because even power needs a day off. Tuesday morning, all three faced a judge and were all. The cynical circular logic is galling, even by Fox News standards. He can often be found at conferences and events about fake news, disinformation and fact checking when he is not in his office in Belgium monitoring and tracking the latest fake article to go viral. Legal Statement. Its why hes still a potent political force in America and around the world. He is the best president. Officials appointed by Mayor Evans at the meeting were Mark Miley, city clerk; Suzonne Cowart, [], Catholic High head football coach David Simoneaux has been named Athletic Director for the Central Community School System and head football coach at Central High School. The morning newspaper, the Evansville Courier, reported that almost all the votes had been counted and McCloskey was in the lead by 96. The next two columns show the ratios rounded to the third decimal like in the Edison files PedeInspector used. More than 233,000 citizens in the district had voted, but the gap between the two candidates was almost impossibly scant. Google Pay. That judge? Karamo headlined a rally Tuesday at the Michigan Capitol, where speakers spread disproven voter fraud theories and demanded an Arizona-style election review. They are truly on the side of our Country. Its why hes still a potent political force in America and around the world. Calling the Democrats thugs and slime, warning of anarchy and casting the House as a rotting carcass of democracy, Trump won 57 percent of the vote in the state in 2016, Ohio State University election law expert Ned Foley. The higher-education center of Bloomington is no longer in the district, and many of the union Democrats in and around Evansville became Reagan Democrats and eventually Trump Republicans. The consequences in the actual 8th district were equally problematic. Because it all came out after Bush was already sworn in a month earlier, the American media largely ignored the story when the BBC broke it on February 16, 2001. The committee played video from an interview with . McCloskey, 45, had gotten elected in 1982 with 52 percent of the vote. Pence, before the joint session of Congress began, said he did not believe, under the Constitution, that he had the authority to "unilaterally" accept or reject electoral votes. or redistributed. Gripping reads, smart analysis and a bit of high-minded fun. Did a "New York Times Election Report" reveal 104,984 Stolen Votes in Georgia and 347,768 in Pennsylvania? Really surprising, Thomas said sarcastically. "This claim of election fraud is disputed, and this Tweet cant be replied to, Retweeted, or liked due to a risk of violence," Twitters flag stated. Lead seesaws, a headline read on April 12. In most elections, the margins are wide enough that in some sense none of that matters. The Republican Party in Indiana, with support from Guy Vander Jagt and his colleagues in the House, has systematically disenfranchised more than 5,000 Indiana voters, many of them Black voters, in order to engineer a fraudulent claim to victory, he said to the AP. | Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing and changing us. Reporter. Thank you all for being out, being Republicans, supporting the team, supporting me.. When placing party loyalty before the common interest of the nation would foster a spirit of revenge, and enable cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government.Former vice president Mike Pence was right in refuting Trumps claim that he could have overturned the election and when he stated that there is no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American president.. TRUMP DIRECTS NATIONAL GUARD TO CAPITOL "We had an election that was stolen from us," Trump said from the White House. More than a year after the election a consortium of newspapers including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and USA Today did their own recount of the vote in Florida manually counting every vote in a process that took almost a year and concluded that Al Gore did indeed win the presidency in 2000. The Friday Read The 'Stolen' Election That Poisoned American Politics. Both a symbol and catalyst of the new hyperpartisanship in Congress, Ohio State University election law expert Ned Foley wrote in his 2016 book Ballot Battles. We will make it impossible for this House to function. Jennifer [], Walk-Ons Sports Bistreaux continues to build on its winning streak with exciting franchise development and a new modern design, that is set to debut in Central. Local and national operatives did the same to monitor their ballot-inspecting efforts. | And, just like in 1876, when you exclude the contested states neither candidate hits the 50%-plus-one electoral votes needed (now 270) to win the White House. Only two incumbent school board members Roxanne Atkinson and Dr. David Walker returned for another term. Evan Vucci/AP Photo, Today the Bloody Eighth might as well be called the Sleepy Eighth.. After polls closed on Election Day, The Times begin to report the results hour after hour. As a result, at least 22,000 Florida voters, most Black men with similar names to Black felons in Texas, were purged from the voting rolls just before the election. Spotted something? That may not seem like much but when you are dealing with hundreds of thousands (or even millions) of votes, it adds up. Ron Edmonds/AP Photo. In close elections, all of it does. In the last two elections he hasnt even had a primary. By design, his campaign manager told me. The typically mild-mannered McCloskey was aghast, calling it a political action and a dereliction., McCloskey and McIntyre are both deceased McCloskey died in 2003, McIntyre in 2007 but Simcox is still alive. Bart Everson via Wikimedia Commons, Coelho asked me to go in, said Jim Margolis, the former senior adviser to Barack Obama who back then was a twentysomething Democratic operative. His work is also crossposted with permission from Common Dreams. Had Donald Trump done that, lost those court cases and congratulated Joe Biden and moved on, hed be president in 24. The final two columns show what the vote count would be if the total vote count was multiplied by the rounded ratio for each candidate. Arguments, in courtrooms and counting centers, in newspapers and on cable TV, swirled over different kinds of machines and absentee ballots and voter intent and disproportionate disenfranchisement within predominantly Black precincts and instance after instance of acts both sides pegged as baldly bad-faith. The allegations of voter fraud are more about defining a set of beliefs for a political tribe than it is about persuasiveness, trying to persuade a group about the utility of their vote, Persily said. That, of course, is not true. REPORTER: A vehicle stolen Friday may be linked to multiple crimes in northeast, including the murder of 19-year-old Devin Brewer. Only one county had reported the results of its recount on Dec. 13 when Simcox certified the election for McIntyre and sent it to the Republican governor for his signature. The non-profit ministry offers a beautiful home-cooked meal Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. Three times House Republicans tried to seat McIntyre at least provisionally until the task force was done with its job. The central target of this hysteria has been Loral Chairman Bernard Schwartz, a lifelong New York Democrat and the largest single contributor to the Democratic Party in the 1996 elections . Apparently, denying the presidency to Al Gore, the guy who actually won the most votes in Florida and won the popular vote nationwide by over a half-million, did not constitute irreparable harm to Scalia or the media. POLITICO Weekend delivers gripping reads, smart analysis and a bit of high-minded fun every Friday. Youre very special?Undeniably, Trumps words continue to have a powerful influence among his supporters. As you can see right away, even with relatively small numbers of votes, the calculated numbers of votes are immediately off by a few compared to the real numbers. McIntyre stretches lead to six, a headline read on April 13. I dont think weve ever seen anything like this.. It lasted a minute and a half. With less than a week before the U.S. midterm elections on November 8, scores of local groups in key battleground states like Arizona, Michigan and Georgia are spreading conspiracy theories about alleged election fraud and calling on voters to take in-person action, based on POLITICO's review of social media activity over the last three months. It is not that difficult to believe Biden did not win legitimately when your mind is made up and not open to persuasion, especially when you are continually bombarded with conspiracy theories and unsubstantiated claims by Trump, social media, and news sources designed to undermine the validity of the results. All rights reserved. Reagan phoned McIntyre and called it a robbery, McIntyre told the AP. And thats what they did. I am retiring and taking some time to enjoy life. The district had a reputation inside Indiana long before 1984. We have people who are running explicitly on the platform that the election results would have turned out different if they were in power in 2020, and I think its going to be up to the voters in the place where they do elect their election officials to say, regardless of party, its not acceptable to politicize the elections, Larry Norden, director of the election reform program at the nonpartisan Brennan Center for Justice, said. Donald Trump drives it. The best way to stop this nightmare before it happens is for both elected Democrats (and the few semi-sane Republicans left, like Cheney and Christie) and the nations media to not only call out Trumps lie, but also call out the media that keeps it alive. 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