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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective
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To: Mephisto who wrote (9671)3/12/2001 2:48:27 PM
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Fresh evidence has emerged in Florida that Al Gore might have won last year's
presidential election under a less contentious voting system, and if the US supreme court had not stepped in to stop the recount.

Martin Kettle in Washington
Monday March 12, 2001
The Guardian

Fresh evidence has emerged in Florida
that Al Gore might have won last year's
presidential election under a less
contentious voting system, and if the US
supreme court had not stepped in to stop
the recount.

A comprehensive new survey of
"undervotes" in Palm Beach county
shows that Mr Gore would have gained
784 more votes than George Bush if every
excluded paper bearing some kind of
mark next to a candidate's name had
been counted.

The butterfly ballot, which has candidates'
names on opposing pages with a row of
punch holes in the middle, confused
thousands of voters in the Democratic
stronghold, which was one of the areas at
the centre of the post-election recount
battle.

Those Palm Beach votes would have been
enough on their own for Mr Gore to
overtake Mr Bush, who was declared the
winner in Florida by a statewide margin of
537 votes.

The Palm Beach recount figures came too
late to be included in the official tally of
votes certified by the Florida secretary of
state Katherine Harris 19 days after the
November 7 election.

The new survey, conducted by the Palm
Beach Post, looked at all the 9,150
disputed undervotes of all kinds, including
5,736 which contained marks next to the
names of Mr Bush and Mr Gore and which
Judge Burton ordered should not be
counted.

The researchers found that these dimpled
chads held the key to Mr Gore's chances.

guardian.co.uk
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