Scott McCallum Quotes
I think there can be some disagreement as to whether Kerry really won Wisconsin or not.
Diebold was the manufacturer of Computerized Voting Machines which had more than 130,000 in service by 2006 serving millions of voters. The University of Maryland and others had done studies on the Diebold machines and demonstrated that there were a number of different ways that the vote count could be tampered with by someone wishing to control the vote results. Although not illegal for a voting machine manufacturer with knowledge of how to rig their voting machines, this quotation was used by the many people who opposed computerized voting machines generically and many who suspected a strong partisan vote rigging capability to support their positions.
On election night in 1960 the vice presidential candidate phoned his running mate to discuss the returns:
In the 2012 election, the candidates campaigned at all in only 10 states after the political conventions.
Donald Trump had won the presdiency by winning a majority of the votes of the Electoral College. However his opponent Hillary Clinton garnered about 2 million more votes. Several other presidents have won with a minority vote. These occurances did not affect the Presidents' legitimacy as the Electoral College was specified in the Constitution, However, it did undercut the concept that the President had a mandate. Other presidents just carried on and either earded the respect of the majoprity of AMericans or did not over time. Howevewr, Trump, who was so sensitive and fragile about his image, kept responding to comedians like Bee by claiming that the only reason he lost the poular vote was voter fraud by illegal immigrants. However he never offered any evidence of such and there were no convictions for same or even arrests and trials.
Statement made after losing her bid to become Georgia’s governor to Brian Kemp (R). Abrams made multiple variations on this statement up until Donald Trump made a pariah of “election denial” after which she began to modify her statements.
James Scott McCallum is an American businessman and former politician. A member of the Republican Party, he was the 43rd Governor of Wisconsin, ascending from the Lieutenant Governorship when Tommy Thompson resigned in 2001 to accept appointment as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services. Prior to becoming Governor, McCallum had served 14 years as Thompson's Lieutenant Governor and served 10 years in the Wisconsin State Senate.
