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The really interesting thing was that Bush likely would have won following Gore’s recount of only undervotes but lost if they’d recounted both under and over vo
by acdha 2y ago
The really interesting thing was that Bush likely would have won following Gore’s recount of only undervotes but lost if they’d recounted both under and over votes:
https://www.cnn.com/2015/10/31/politics/bush-gore-2000-election-results-studies/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2015/10/31/politics/bush-gore-2000-elect...
My main takeaway is that this was within the margin of error so we shouldn’t go crazy trying to play what-if scenarios and getting distracted from blaming Florida for having a bad system which produced high error rates. Once you’re in the noise like that, you’ve guaranteed that someone will be unhappy.