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In reply to the discussion: 2 letters Requesting VP Harris to Request of Demand Recounts of 2024 Presidential Election [View all]Time for change
(13,737 posts)But sometimes denying something provides the path towards investigating whether or not what is denied is actually true or not.
Unless this is investigated we'll never know.
In 2000, the US Supreme Court stopped the vote count
In 2004, John Kerry's request to examine voting machines prior to the election was denied in court, and then, when the results of the election turned out to be highly suspicious in Ohio, he didn't request a recount
In 2016, with highly suspicious results, Hillary Clinton did not request a recount. The Green Party losing candidate paid $5 million for statewide hand recounts in WI, PA, and WI. But Trump successfully sued to stop all 3 of them, with the judgement in at least one of those states implying that if a candidate with any chance of winning the election had requested the recount, it would have been approved.
We are not interested in denying the results of this election. We are interested in finding out what the truth is, and thus preserving our democracy.