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2000 Presidential Ballot, Palm Beach County, Florida


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The 2000 US presidential election was extremely unusual. A two-way contest for practical purposes between Democratic candidate, Vice President Al Gore, and Republican candidate, Governor George W. Bush of Texas, it was a very close contest. Thanks to the peculiarities of the US electoral college system, the results came down to who gets to take the 25 electoral votes of the State of Florida, where many voting irregularities were alleged, and where Bush was ahead of Gore by a mere 537 votes, triggering a mandatory recount.

One of several irregularities noted was the butterfly ballot, used in Palm Beach County and a few other parts of Florida. The county is home to many elderly Jewish voters who are not too keen on the anti-Semitism of the Reform Party candidate Pat Buchanan. Many of them, intending to vote for Gore and seeing that he is listed second on the left page, punched the second hole – even though the butterfly design meant that the second hole actually belonged to the first entry on the right page, Pat Buchanan.

As the recount progressed, court battles were fought between the two campaigns to determine the outcome of the election. Six weeks after the election, the US Supreme Court ordered the recount stopped, and Florida was to certify the results as a Bush win by the original 537-vote margin. This allowed Bush to take Florida’s 25 electoral votes to win the Presidency by four electoral votes (271-267), and he went on to serve two terms.