Bloomberg Brags About Dems Secret Weapon in a Close Election, They Control Top Election Officials in Battleground States

Bloomberg just revealed what Democrats view as their “secret weapon” in the event of a close election:

Twenty years ago, as Democrat Al Gore and Republican George W. Bush battled for weeks over which one of them had won the U.S. presidential election, Florida’s Republican secretary of state, Katherine Harris, helped hand the White House to Bush by declaring an end to recounts that showed him clinging to the slimmest of leads.

If the outcome of this November’s election comes down to fights over counting mail-in ballots and claims of fraud by President Donald Trump, Democrat Joe Biden may have a quiet advantage: The top election officials in many of the key states that could decide the election are Democrats.

In Michigan and Pennsylvania — two Democratic-leaning states Trump won in 2016 — the top elections officials belong to Biden’s party. That’s also true in Arizona, which Trump carried but Biden is now leading in the polls, and Minnesota, which the president has targeted.

So there you have it. In the event of a close election the top elections officials in each state can play a big part in determining the outcome.

And according to the Bloomberg article Democrats plan on using their control over the top election officials in many of the battleground states to their advantage, possibly to swing the outcome to Biden’s favor.

Here’s more on exactly how state officials can influence the outcome of a close election:

While state officials influence the election with the rules governing voting, they also can play a pivotal role in ballot-counting if the race is close with rulings to break tie votes or other actions such as Harris took in 2000, said Daniel Tokaji, a former Ohio State University election law professor and now dean of the University of Wisconsin Law School. There’s also inherent tension between discharging their official duties and the incentive to help their party, he said.

“There’s just no getting around that conflict of interest,” Tokaji added. “Even well-intentioned officials trying to do the right thing, their actions can always be called into question.”

If Democrats can’t win fair and square in my opinion they plan to do everything in their power to gain their desired outcome.