Al Gore strikes me as one of the many boring centrist politicians we have been electing here in Denmark for the past 60 years.
Obviously that means he has no chance in the US.
Obviously that means he has no chance in the US.
Naturally it's never described that way. It's typically framed as something like 'we should delegate this task to the private sector because they're more efficient'.
And I suppose my next questions would be:
* "why were those managing the recount so inflexible about when the re-count had to be completed by?"
* "why wasn't there any middle ground that could have been achieved by those (ostensibly) asking for 'openness' and those wanting to do the recount?" --- for example, by this, I am imagining something like the police maintaining order amongst the viewing public, so that they do not physically harm or otherwise distract the re-counting officials, and having professional observers from both parties available to make rounds as the process is being executed?
Just turn each unit over and shake it. (Like a three hole punch.)
Not following procedures. One of the many consequences of conducting elections on the cheap.
So dumb.
The fact that BBR worked is only because those two points were true?