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...noticed, but then again, most times the candidates in a presidential race were separated by millions of votes. Voting disputes were something that happened in races for city council. And then in 2000, the margin of error was larger than the margin between George Bush and Al Gore in a few crucial counties...
...even more alarming than these uber-present SWAT teams, is the lack of election reform in the post-Bush v. Gore era. In 2002, Congress passed the Help America Vote Act to give states money to upgrade equipment, develop computer registration lists, and provide guidance through the newly created Election Assistance Commission. The actual election commissioners, however, weren’t appointed until Dec. 2003, and there is a conspicuous lack of funding. Moreover, the technical voting problems of the Florida ballot still exist; an estimated 32 million voters in 19 states will use the ill-fated punch cards. Thus...
...state in the union in 2000. Late on election night, Bush was winning the state by 4 votes when a retired engineer noticed a mathematical error that had lopped 500 votes off Al Gore’s total. When the error was fixed and all the ballots were counted, Gore had won the state by 366 votes. If Gore had claimed one other state—say, Tennessee—he would be President right now, and 366 New Mexicans and a retired engineer would be responsible...
...When Gore did just that in 2000, many Democrats decided it was time to scrap the Electoral College. But that requires a constitutional amendment, not an easy thing to pass when swing states like the current system, which affords them a disproportionate share of the candidates' attention. The Constitution gives state legislatures the power to decide how electors are chosen, and since 2000, legislators in 29 states have proposed bills eliminating winner-take-all systems. Not one bill has passed. The party that dominates the statehouse usually has an edge in presidential campaigns and is thus reluctant to share...
...ground troops make in Ohio every night. When the sun comes up, the volunteers are out knocking on doors across Fairfield County. "I don't think it's close," says Jim Mergler, 61, of the race in the county. Mergler is a retired teacher who voted for Al Gore in 2000 but is spending six hours a day this year going house to house for the Bush team, because, he says, they were the ones who asked him. "The Democratic Party in this county doesn't exist...