Reply #38: I don't have a website address, but I do have books on the subject [View All]

[Time for change]

By the narrow mandate that the Florida Supreme Court was given, it is true that Gore probably would have lost by a narrow amount. This is based on two considerations:

1) That mandate did not specify that over-votes were to be counted. The Gore team was not aware that the over-votes contained a lot more for them than the under-votes (Several hundred or several thousand). These were ballots that had more than one vote for President on them, but Gore's name written in at the bottom. This was due to confusion over the butterfly ballot.

2) The only county that the Florida Supreme Court did not mandate to be re-counted by hand was Broward. This was because Broward was the only county that had already been re-counted and certified. However, what was not realized at the time was that it was mis-counted, giving Bush many more votes than he deserved (Probably because of GOP pressure during the hand re-count). This came to light during the Miami Herald recount.

If either the over-votes had been counted, or Broward had been re-counted again, fairly, Gore would have won. Otherwise, no.

Of course this doesn't take into account:

3) The thousands of votes lost because of the butterfly ballot (which can be documented statistically.)

4) The tens of thousands of disenfranchased voters who were disenfranchised because they were a close match to felons.

5) The cheating over the absentee ballots.

6) Any other cheating that may have and probably did go on, related to electronic voting, which I am not able to document.


I can document most of this from the books I have, if anyone is interested.