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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: md1derful who wrote (98873)12/2/2000 9:27:17 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769667
 
doc,
An interesting statistical analysis has just been published in the Miami Herald:

IF THE VOTE WERE FLAWLESS...
Gore would have had the edge in glitch-free Florida balloting, based on a Herald analysis

BY ANABELLE de GALE, LILA ARZUA AND CURTIS MORGAN
cmorgan@herald.com

If no one had ever heard of hanging chads, if the butterfly ballot had never flown, if no voter had bungled in the booth, who would have won Florida and the presidency of the United States?

In a race so tight, it may never be known for certain. But an analysis commissioned by The Herald of voting patterns in each of the state's 5,885 precincts suggests that Florida likely would have gone to Al Gore -- by a slim 23,000 votes -- rather than George W. Bush, the officially certified victor by the wispy margin of 537.
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miamiherald.com