The GOP has been fine with subverting democracy in the past. That they (largely en masse) are currently fine with a different variety of an anti-democratic practice or behavior is not really all that surprising.
Halting the counting of votes is an anti-democratic practice - even if the Supreme Court is ordering it. Creating butterfly ballots and a system that generates "hanging chads" is also gaming the system in an anti-democratic manner.
One should recall what the Supreme Court did by halting the recount in Florida. Only later would the recounts show that Gore would have won Florida. So, the Supreme Court chose to create the Bush/Cheney administration and all that followed from it.
Was Liz Cheney against such anti-democratic practices back then when they had influence over her father's fortunes? Did she speak up and demand that the vote in Florida be allowed to be recounted completely? I don't recall her or any of the GOP of that time standing up and saying that the full vote in Florida should be recounted completely.
She is a day late and a dollar short as far as I am concerned. So, while it is good that she is saying what she is saying now, she deserves no praise for the doing of what she always should have done and still should do as a citizen of the USA.
Florida 'recounts' make Gore winner
Special report: the US elections
Martin Kettle in Washington
@martinkettle
Sun 28 Jan 2001 20.18 EST
Al Gore, not George Bush, should be sitting in the White House today as the newly elected president of the United States, two new independent probes of the disputed Florida election contest have confirmed.
The first survey, conducted on behalf of the Washington Post, shows that Mr Gore had a nearly three-to-one majority among 56,000 Florida voters whose November 7 ballot papers were discounted because they contained more than one punched hole.
The second and separate survey, conducted on behalf of the Palm Beach Post, shows that Mr Gore had a majority of 682 votes among the discounted "dimpled" ballots in Palm Beach county.
In each case, if the newly examined votes had been allowed to count in the November election, Mr Gore would have won Florida's 21 electoral college votes by a narrow majority and he, not Mr Bush, would be the president. Instead, Mr Bush officially carried Florida by 537 votes after recounts were stopped.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/jan/29/uselections2000.usa
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