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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/30/upshot/florida-2000-gore-ballot.html
In a report that shocks no one, it seems that Al Gore would have won the 2000 US election and defeated Bush, if not for the very bizarre incident with illogical voting machines in the state where Bush’s brother was governor at the time.
In a nutshell:
Ballot reads-
George Bush
Al Gore
Pat Buchanan
Button 1 on the voting machine punches a hole over George Bush.
Button 2 on the machine punches a hole over Buchanan.
Button 3 punches a hole over Al Gore.
Stupid or diabolical, it gave Bush the razor-thin margin needed to clinch the presidency, with the help of a friendly Supreme Court who refused to allow a correction/local recount.
What a different world this could have been if only those machines weren’t messed up like that.