You listed some advantages for democrats in extending counting days after the election, but you failed to mention ballots being discovered in car trunks, like those that were miraculously found in Michigan that finally gave Al Franken the win after losing for weeks to Coleman.Democratic votes did tend to increase in the days following elections but it is because of hanging chads, butterfly ballots, late counts of mail-in ballots, and irregularities related to lowered access to polling stations.
EDITORIAL: The art of stealing elections
Stealing elections is an old game politicians play. Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president, got to the U.S. Senate in 1948 by “winning” the closest race in Texas history by a margin of 87 votes out of more than a million cast. An election judge in tiny Alice, Texas, said he counted more than 200...
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Republicans nearly always get the sticky end of the wicket. In 2008, Al Franken, the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in Minnesota, trailed his Republican opponent by 215 votes out of 2.9 million cast. After working a protracted recount and a legal battle over disputed absentee ballots and ballots said to be counted twice, he was abruptly declared the “winner” by 312 votes. A box of Democratic ballots helpfully turned up in the trunk of a car.