Better than most. Remember who began the legal action in Florida, particularly filing actions in the Florida Supreme Court? I’ll give you a hint… it wasn’t the Republicans. The U.S. Supreme Court only became involved when the Florida Supreme Court ignored Equal Protection.

This will get more intensely reported in the last days of an election. It will be more loudly screamed by the party that feels a close election slipping way. It will be used to explain the close loss. (see also “we just didn’t get our message out”)

Remember George W. Bush and Richard Cheney, Petitioners v. Albert Gore, Jr., et al? Isn’t the “petitioner” the “whiner”? Isn’t that the granddaddy of all cases in which elections results were taken to the courts?

The good news is that I may be about to “get over it”.

Al Gore won New Mexico by a very small margin. If memory serves me, it was approximately 344 votes. It was the smallest margin of victory of any of the 50 states. I distinctly recall hearing among Republican Party activists, there was a belief that George Bush actually won the 2000 election [in New Mexico]. And that somehow Gore stole the election. So I think there was this belief that let’s not let this happen again. That’s what I believe to be the genesis of them attempting to put pressure on me to find prosecutable cases.

Former New Mexico U.S Attorney David Iglesias

So I set up a taskforce in September 2004 to investigate. I made it state, local and federal law enforcement, and I had made sure that the FBI was involved, and that the Justice Department, public integrity section in Washington was involved. I made sure that there were both Democrat and Republican officials as part of this voter fraud effort because I wanted to allay the fears of New Mexicans that this was some kind of partisan witch hunt.

We looked at well over 100 cases … Upon reviewing the evidence and looking at the FBI reports, and actually talking to the FBI agent in charge of this, I concluded, as did the public integrity section at main Justice [Department] and at the local FBI office, that we didn’t have any prosecutable cases.

Yeah, Democrats are cheating. They are rigging the election by convincing more people to vote for their candidate. Unfair!

Actually, that’s been the main Democrat tactic every time they lose an election this century. I’ll be very surprised if Republicans whine their way into courts across the country the way Democrats did in ‘00 and ‘04.

Just look at your anti-spam measure.