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The ‘Stolen’ Election That Poisoned American Politics. It Happened in 1984.
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| Contributor | Chronicler |
| Last Edited | Chronicler Jan 06, 2023 06:11pm |
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| Category | News |
| Author | Michael Kruse |
| News Date | Friday, January 6, 2023 11:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | This is a fairly balanced article about the events in 1984-1985. In reading an article of this kind, you need to separate your candidate preference from a preference for the winner to be seated. Two comments:
1) Everyone who remembers this situation will recall that the congressional recount was not completed by county (as the article states) but in waves. All ballots were put through the machine (this part *was* done by county), and ballots the machines couldn't count were set aside and sorted by type. Ballots where the voter intent was clear were re-marked and counted, leaving the Republican still winning. Then the irregular absentee ballots were sorted by type. Certain types of absentee ballots were counted, still leaving the Republican in the lead. During the counting of the final type of absentee ballots, the Democrat moved into a four-vote lead. At that point, the committee stopped counting with 32 ballots left uncounted in their envelopes. Most of the ballots in this class of absentee had been counted. The author accurately reported that newspapers contacted the people who cast those 32 ballots, which were overwhelmingly Republican votes.
2) The author said that Indiana 08 is more Republican today because of redistricting. This is not accurate at all - Indiana as a whole is more Republican today. I made a table of the 11 counties entirely located within the district in 1984 and 2022 (Posey, Vanderburgh, Warrick, Spencer, Pike, Gibson, Knox, Daviess, Martin, Greene, and Orange). These 11 counties cast 80% of the 1984 vote, and that year they gave the Democrat 51.9% of their vote. In 2022, the Republican won 67.7% of the vote in these counties. The shift in the district was definitely not the result of redistricting. |
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