2000 Election Analysis

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The 2000 Presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore continues to spark controversy regarding which candidate actually should have won, even 17 years later. In 2008 the dramatization film of this election, Recount, aired on HBO and primarily documented the voting irregularities in Florida. At the time, Florida counted with 25 electoral votes, thus analytics predicted that whichever candidate won Florida would also win the election. It is later revealed in the film that George W. Bush won the election with 271 electoral votes, while Al Gore received 266 votes. However, there is substantial evidence that challenges the legitimacy of this election and suggests that the real winner should have been Gore. In fact, I believe that if …show more content…
Buchanan later released a statement regarding this irregularity in support of Gore, “I think and it is my belief that some of those votes that were cast for me, probably were cast for me mistakenly in the belief that people were casting their ballots for Al Gore” [1]. Additionally, it was reported that a machine in Volusia, Florida falsely, “added 3,000 votes to Bush’s total and subtracted thousands of votes from Gore’s. Gore’s count right now is negative 16,000 in that county…There was 150,000 under votes” [1]. This is strong enough evidence to indicate irregularities in Gore’s numbers in Florida, therefore, I believe that if the recount were to actually been completed, this election would have been legitimate and Gore would have won Florida and ultimately the Presidency. Furthermore, this election was illegitimate, because it failed to follow the rules stated in the Constitution. After Gore retracts his concession to Bush, Director of Elections, Clay Roberts, announces that, “Bush received 2,909,35 votes. Gore received 2,907,351 votes. Bush takes Florida by 1,784 votes or

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