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Because the 2000 presidential election was so close in Florida, the federal government and state governments pushed for election reform to be prepared by the 2004 presidential election. Many of Florida's 2000 election night problems stemmed from usability and ballot design factors with voting systems, including the potentially confusing ...
If Gore had won the recount, then he would have won the election with a total of 292 electoral votes, and Bush would have lost with 246 electoral votes. Post-election analysis has found that Palm Beach County's butterfly ballot misdirected over 2,000 votes from Gore to third-party candidate Pat Buchanan, tipping Florida—and the election—to ...
Presidential election year: Election day: November 7, 2000: Incumbent president: Bill Clinton (Democratic) Next Congress: 107th: Presidential election; Partisan control: Republican gain: Popular vote margin: Democratic +0.5%: Electoral vote: George W. Bush : 271: Al Gore : 266: 2000 presidential election results. Red denotes states won by Bush ...
On the night of the 2000 presidential election, as the counting began in a tight race between Texas Gov. George W. Bush and incumbent Vice President Al Gore, it all came down to Florida. And then ...
The controversy began on election night, November 7, 2000, when the national television networks, using information provided to them by the Voter News Service, an organization formed by the Associated Press to help determine the outcome of the election through early result tallies and exit polling, first called Florida for Gore in the hour after polls closed in the peninsula (in the Eastern ...
An outlier in presidential races, the 2000 election between former Vice President Al Gore and then-Texas Gov. George Bush was not decided until Dec. 12, 2000, five weeks after Election Day.
2000 United States presidential election: Republican Governor of Texas George W. Bush defeats Democratic Vice President Al Gore in the U.S. presidential election. However, the discovery of a miscount in Florida leads to a recount of the votes.
Nearly 17 years later, Al Gore still seems to believe he beat George W. Bush in Florida and, therefore, the general presidential election, in 2000.