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...heart of the fight was those confusing Palm Beach ballots. Some 19,000 had been thrown out because voters had punched two holes for President; an additional 10,000 did not register any presidential choice. Hearing about the ballot's design problem, other voters in the county became convinced on Wednesday that they had accidentally voted for Buchanan, whose total of 3,407 votes in the county was three times as high as in neighboring counties with different-style ballots. Buchanan, never one to miss a chance to stir hot soup if it could spill on someone named Bush, went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: Reversal of... ...Fortune | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

...levels of cunning and competence unheard of in Florida politics. If the national election was being stolen, it was probably by accident. The target more likely was some county-commission runoff or maybe a seat on the port authority. That the presidential nominees happened to appear on the same ballot was merely rotten luck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letter from Florida: When the Going Gets Weird... | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

...what really happened in Palm Beach? The elections supervisor says she wanted to make the ballot easier for seniors to read. I believe her because it's a vintage South Florida bungle--a bureaucrat tries to do something nice for a few old folks and winds up paralyzing the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letter from Florida: When the Going Gets Weird... | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

...poetic end to Florida's vote crisis would bring the weirdness full circle, to another of our recent turns in the world spotlight. Don't be shocked if the entire presidential election shakes down to a single vote--an overseas ballot from Havana, bearing the childlike signature of one E. Gonzalez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letter from Florida: When the Going Gets Weird... | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

...world's greatest economic powerhouse, cradle of the information age, was counting ballots by hand. One hundred million people had voted, and the outcome danced in the margin of error. There were murmurs from all over the country, not just in Florida, of broken voting machines and missing registrations and disappearing ballot boxes and intimidation and confusion, a growing conviction among true believers on both sides that this prize was about to be stolen. The sleep-deprived commentariat talked of a country divided and a constitutional crisis looming, which may not have been true, but it didn't hurt ratings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: Reversal of... ...Fortune | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

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