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[kpete]

Florida 'recounts' make Gore winner
Special report: the US elections
Sunday 28 January 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

[SHRED]

1. You're damn right

[trusty elf]

2. I won't ever forget.

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[edhopper]

3. Was going to post something similar.

K & R

[Rex]

4. Will never forget that, the day the GOP rigged an election.

Many think they rigged 2004 too.

[MadLinguist]

5. yes, many including myself do. That is what brought me to DU back in 2004

[Mr.Bill]

6. They are the masters of projection.

They are guilty of everything they accuse democrats of.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

10. Except that, if I'm not mistaken, projection is an uncounsious psychological process,

whereas, in many cases, the RW is accuses their opponents of what they know they themselves are guilty of as an offensive propaganda technique.

[Mr.Bill]

11. True, the leaders are plotting it,

but the followers are following it without giving it much thought of their own. Challenging them on the facts always exposes this.

[Stonepounder]

7. I will also never forget, that Mr. Gore, who deeply disagreed with SCOTUS,

still refused to challenge their ruling or allow a challenge. We are a nation of laws, and the Democrat who had the election stolen from him acted with absolute dignity and the ruling of SCOTUS.

I hated that he did it, but understood and was so proud of him!! He was a much better person that I could have been.

[DK504]

8. Changed the world forever.

That bitch Harris should have been thrown in jail 16 years ago for violations of the 13th amendment.

[Hekate]

9. The Brooks Brothers riots and the bloodless coup d'etat still make me sick to my stomach...

I will never get back the amount of faith I lost in my country.

And I will never call it "the Homeland," because that reeks of Nazi blood-and-soil ethnic territoriality.