Did you notice that Justice O'Connor said that the decision didn't really matter, since subsequent recounts all showed that Bush won?
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Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy
Recounts that do not take the entire picture of WTF actually happened. The Butterfly ballot alone cost Gore the election. But if people are not smart enough to figure out a ballot box their votes should count as they voted but anyone with half a brain knows that Pat was not who these folks were voting for, it was Gore. And yes in fact I think Gore would have been a better President. But that is beside the point.
http://www.cagreens.org/alameda/city/0803myth/myth.html
Pat Buchanan himself has admitted that most of his votes in Palm Beach County were meant for Al Gore, saying he "did not campaign and bought no advertising there" (Nichols, 2001, p. 86). He added, "I would say 95 to 98 percent of [the votes] were for Gore" (
id. at p. 89). The day after the election, many people were upset, saying the butterfly ballot was confusing. When the election results were "too close to call," Buchanan worried he would be charged with costing Gore the election. He said he got more media coverage after the election than he did during the campaign (
id. at p. 84). The graph to the left showing an abnormally high Buchanan vote in Palm Beach County suggests the butterfly ballot cost Al Gore thousands of votes, more than enough to have won the presidency.