# If what Trump said was true, and mass voter fraud elected Biden, what happens?

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**Created:** [December 5, 2022, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-what-trump-said-was-true-and-mass-voter-fraud-elected-biden-what-happens/976050 "2022-12-05T12:14:33Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 9, 2022, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-what-trump-said-was-true-and-mass-voter-fraud-elected-biden-what-happens/976050/21 "2022-12-09T18:50:22Z")

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> [@Horatius](#):
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> Yeah, but the 2000 election showed that, when it comes down to a coin flip in one state, that’s so close that people really won’t get worked up about it. They’ll moan a bit, but won’t plan the downfall of the federal government. Everyone figures the next election will be fair.
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> It’s only when we’re talking about multiple states that people start getting incensed. That’s when people start thinking the whole system has fallen apart.

The question isn’t about a very close race. It’s about a win for one side that was reversed due to deliberate and later probable fraud. That is not what happened in 2000. Not to reopen the debate we beat to death 20 years ago, there were issues with the election in Florida but there wasn’t a conspiracy and Bush most likely would have come out on top regardless of the number of recounts under the law at the time.

> **[Bush wins, Gore wins -- depending on how ballots are added up](https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-ballots-story.html)**
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> If the U.S. Supreme Court had allowed Florida's courts to finish their abortive recount of last year's deadlocked presidential election, President Bush probably still would have won by several hundred votes, a comprehensive study of the uncounted...

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