I'm a regular listener and love the podcast--keep up the great work! Here's a thought on today's podcast on the Republican plans to discredit the Florida recount. You discuss how this strategy is mostly focused on mobilizing Republicans, but I think it is also part of a strategy to intimidate minority voters. When they say that too many votes are being counted, they really mean that minority votes shouldn't be counted. Furthermore, since some minorities, especially Black Americans, are less likely to vote, this strategy sends them a message to stay away from the polls.
Work by Steven F. Freeman and by Lance deHaven-Smith show that Gore actually won Florida in 2000. deHaven-Smith even said "under any of the five most reasonable interpretations of the Florida Supreme Court ruling, Gore does, in fact, more than make up the deficit".
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All media should support the counting of votes.
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You and guest just misinformed the public when you said If all the votes were counted in 2000, as the state court ordered, Bush would've won anyways. That is not true by any standard of counting the ballots that was conducted after the election was stolen. I suggest you correct this horrible error and history of what the supreme court did to appoint a president. If all ballots in the state were counted Gore won.
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Every ballot, every vote needs to be counted, No matter how long it takes. To disenfranchise "we the people" by not counting every vote, is unacceptable. To give the clerk the task to judge if a signature does or doesn't match, maybe giving the clerk a task he/she is not qualified to do. I don't sign my name the same every time, especially on a iPad using the pads of my finger.
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