As usual, columnist Joseph Sabino Mistick cherry-picks facts to slant his view of politics (“Preparing for the post-election crisis,” Oct. 19, TribLive). While it is factual to state that the 2000 election review was stopped by SCOTUS, the popular vote was not then, nor now, the deterministic factor. And a subsequent deep investigation by The New York Times proved that George W. Bush did in fact win those Florida electoral votes.
Mistick’s implication that the 2000 election was “stolen” by the legal wrangling after Election Day is another way he fuels the distrust over the upcoming election, and the Trib publishing this does not help in making the case for faith in the process, either.
Tom Portante
O’Hara