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The "butterfly ballot" used in Palm Beach County, Florida, was suspected of causing Al Gore's supporters to accidentally vote for Pat Buchanan.. The 2000 United States presidential election recount in Florida was a period of vote recounting in Florida that occurred during the weeks after Election Day in the 2000 United States presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore.
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 ...
Bush's lead lawyer, Barry Richard, talks to the press after the Florida Supreme Court opinion regarding the recount in Palm Beach County. This was taken during the 2000 recount in Tallahassee.
Florida's election laws [12] allow a candidate to request a county to conduct a manual recount, and Gore requested manual recounts in four Florida counties—Volusia, Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade—that generally vote Democratic and would be expected to find more votes for Gore. Gore did not request any recounts in counties that ...
Ballots should be counted quickly and accurately. Photo: Demonstrators protest the recount of ballots in Broward County, Florida, in 2000; Candace Barbot/KRT/ABACA/Alamy
The Brooks Brothers riot was a demonstration led by Republican staffers at a meeting of election canvassers in Miami-Dade County, Florida, on November 22, 2000, during a recount of votes made during the 2000 United States presidential election, with the goal of shutting down the recount. After demonstrations and acts of violence, local ...
A squeaker of a Florida House race that triggered a machine recount Friday ultimately confirmed election night totals: Former Wellington Mayor Anne Gerwig flipped a seat and racked up a win for ...
Florida Supreme Court during the recount. Most of the post-electoral controversy revolved around Gore's request for hand recounts in four counties (Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, and Volusia), as provided under Florida state law. Harris, who also co-chaired Bush's Florida campaign, announced she would reject any revised totals from those ...