Letter: Contesting results before votes even counted?
Has everyone noticed that, even before the elections, a number of Republican candidates across the country declared that they would not accept the results of their elections unless they won. Wow. Two cheers for democracy. What a great value to instill in your children.
Admittedly, most of these candidates were of the self-important and puny sort. (After twenty-five years, one candidate never graduated from a twinkie position at a local television station.) In any case, the message to all is the same. If you are not going to accept the election results if you lose, well, so what? Under our electoral system, votes are counted and often re-counted, and the candidate with the most votes wins. There is no provision under our election laws requiring the loser to “accept” the results.
Scott Newton, Jasper
I concur Scott, “There is no provision under our election laws requiring the loser to “accept” the results.” Here is a 12 minute video of Democrats doing just that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX2Ejqjz6TA
Daryl Hensley, Jasper IN
Painfully low effort whataboutism. It’s not even worth the trouble to responding to.
Sorry Daryl, voters rejected the Christian Nationalist Franco State you want. Again.
Daryl,
Not to put too fine a point on it, but I was speaking of candidates who announce before the first ballot is cast that they will not accept the election results if they lose. After all the votes have been tabulated and the winner announced, then charges of illegitimacy, hoaxes, and corruption are just standard fare.
In 2016 Donald Trump stated explicitly that he would not accept the election results if he lost. Hillary Clinton made no such assertion. When she lost the Electoral College, she gave a very gracious concession speech to Donald Trump on the very night of the election. A peaceful transfer of power then ensued.
We didn’t see that last time around. Who knows if we’ll ever see it again.
Scott she actually publicly conceded at 11:41 AM the next day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiKt0ME5fSQ
She then spent the next four years denying she lost the election as the video link I sent showed.
Then she followed that up with her doing exactly as you mention by telling Joe Biden to never concede the election. The MSNBC team concurs with Hillary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwc0cJ409VQ
It seems it is an illness in both political parties.
Daryl Hensley, Jasper IN
Yeah well only one side was brainwashed enough to try a coup on Jan 6th right?
I want the angry orange man back!!
Yeah then make sure you teach your kids that morals don’t matter.
Will do Wayne. I appreciate your guidance. They have a ways to go.
No problem let me know if you don’t know who won the 2020 election I can help you on that too.
Lol! That will not be necessary. That buffoon Biden reminds me everyday. Geez, what a complete clown show.
Welcome to the side of truth.
Now let’s make this place great!
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I’m glad that Wayne and Joe’s slap fight gets approved without question but it seems that now 90% of what I say here gets deleted and even then I have to use a VPN because they somehow managed to block my IP address but STILL can’t recognize somebody using specific information in the name and address box. I guess I finally struck enough nerves that even the admins here can’t handle what I’m saying. I guess others are allowed to post direct threats but I can’t use any kind of remotely heated language anymore.
Perhaps it’s time for new approach.
Try using your real name….
Don’t be scared of the internet
Why Wayne so you can send me death threats? Wish they my whole family dies of Covid? Call me insane and that I need be committed? Tried to find my address?
It seems that’s allowed on this website because these are all things that have happened to me and manually approved.
Should I send you my address and social security number Wayne? Would that make you happy?