- Katherine Harris is the Secretary of State of Florida during the 2000 election.
- Bush won the election in a 5 to 4 ruling of the Supreme Court, when the recount was ordered to end on December 12th.
- During the recount, 175,010 ballots had to be examined in 67 counties.
- Democrats believe that Gore lost 8,000 because of the mistakes in the ballots.
- The recounts mainly focused on 61,000 "undervote" ballots, ballots that didn't have a distinct vote for either candidates.
- Gore advisers pushed to count "dimpled chads" in the recount.
- It took 36 days after the election to finally announce who the new president was, though people are still unsure about who may have actually won.
- Before the recount, Bush was certified as the winner of the election, just by 537 votes.
Questions:
- Who decides if a county should have a recount?
- How many times do they run ballots through machines if they get a different number each time?
- What made citizens realize they voted incorrectly?
- How long does it take to recount votes?
- In this situation, would the federal government deal with issues states may not be able to solve?
- How could they have reduced error in the voting process?
- Who partakes in recounting the votes?
- If the mistakes were made in the 2000 election, is it possible a former president won from similar mistakes of counting votes incorrectly?
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