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[OngBonga]

Didn't Bush cheat to beat Gore?

[BananaStand]

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.

[spoonitnow]

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.

^Except it went nothing like that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_v._Gore

BananaStand is closer than you're giving him credit for. I'll give a quick list of points of what happened for our European friends:

1. The presidential election came down to the point that it was going to be decided by the results of who won in the state of Florida.

2. Bush originally won by a very small margin (around 1,800 votes), and the margin was so small that it required a mandatory machine-based (it being machine-based is important) recount.

3. After all but one county had finished this, Bush's win was down to a margin of less than 350 votes.

4. Florida allows a candidate to request specific counties to do manual recounts.

5. Gore requested manual recounts in a few counties that would likely bring down Bush's margin of winning by even more (but strictly avoided requesting manual recounts in any counties that would likely help Bush).

6. Gore got his recount in those counties, but some of them were not able to complete the recount by the deadline (even after being given an option for an extended deadline if they gave written arguments about why it was taking so fucking long). Bush was declared the winner, again.

7. Gore challenged the results in Florida's Supreme Court (the highest court in the state), and the court ordered a statewide manual recount (not just a manual recount of the few counties Gore targeted).

8. The next day, the US Supreme Court (the highest court in the country) ordered that the recount be stopped as it was ruled unconstitutional (via multiple reasons), and Bush was declared the winner for the third time.