But Democrats will steal every election that is.
What Mr. Franken understood was that courts would later be loathe to overrule decisions made by the canvassing board, however arbitrary those decisions were. He was right. The three-judge panel overseeing the Coleman legal challenge, and the Supreme Court that reviewed the panel's findings, in essence found that Mr. Coleman hadn't demonstrated a willful or malicious attempt on behalf of officials to deny him the election. And so they refused to reopen what had become a forbidding tangle of irregularities. Mr. Coleman didn't lose the election. He lost the fight to stop the state canvassing board from changing the vote-counting rules after the fact.
This is what Democrats tried to do in Florida in 2000, with the blessing of the Florida Supreme Court. Thankfully, the SCOTUS smacked the Florida Supremes, and, when that didn't work, just shut down the entire recount process.
Of course, Democrats are famous for stuffing ballot boxes and cheating during the elections, then accusing Republicans of a "Southern strategy" or cheating themselves. Which is why I find it hilarious every time some foaming-mouthed moonbat screams about the "stolen" election of 2000. Thank God they didn't get to steal that one, as well.
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