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Unequal: The 2000 Presidential Election

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Recount I believe the 2000 Presidential Election was illegitimate. The reason is because there were 175,000 ballots that were not recounted in the state of Florida (1). The only reason that Bush was ahead was because the machine made an automatic recount. When the difference is less than 0.3% the machine automatically recounts the votes. In this case, the votes were being taken away from Al Gore and given to George W. Bush (1). If those ballots were counted in the time they were given, I believe that Al Gore would have been ahead. Also, there are 67 counties total in the state of Florida and 18 of those counties were supposed to be counted, however, only two, which were Palm Beach and Volusia, ballots were being recounted (1). The two

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