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 Originally Posted by OngBonga
Didn't Bush cheat to beat Gore?
No. Basically it went down like this...
Bush won. And I'm not really sure who said what when, but basically it came to light that the method of voting in Florida generated some ambiguous ballots. Apparently the thingy that punches a hole through the paper didn't go all the way through, and the paper wouldn't separate, then it could get pushed back into the hole and maybe not be read by the computer. blah blah blah.
Gore cried foul. And said hey look at that machine, and that machine, and that machine. They're making fucked up ballots. They need to be recounted.
Then Bush said "whoa there chummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmp! You can't just recount the voting machines in the districts you like. What if the voting machines in other districts are broken too? Let's recount ALL the votes"
So it went to court where the democrats argued against a solution where every vote is treated equally. Yeah you read that right. They lost, and when the whole thing was recounted, Bush still won.
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