What is with Florida? Another recount?
816653
George W Bush's brother, Jeb Bush, is the govenor of Florida.  The Bush family has Jeb under their thumb.  There are multiple problems here: curruption, racism, greed, dirty politics, Republicans - whatever you want to call it.  These aren't "Accidents", these are planned out courses of action.
942002
There was actually an issue with electronic voting machines in Florida again this year.\n\nSometimes mistakes happen.  Sometimes people try to cheat the system.  Sometimes people other than democrats have made errors or cheat, too.\n\nI think that you're painting with a very broad brush, as the saying goes.  I think it is unfair to pose a question or make a statement that says only democrats will cheat, whine, or mess up.  When dealing with so, so many people as ALL of the political parties are, the chances for there being "bad apples" in the bunch is always there.  \n\nAnd for the record, I am not a democrat, repulican, or otherwise.  I'm of the "non-voting" type currently and don't support any specific party.
552265
The latter. Vote for Gore. He should have won, anyway. GW's brother Jeb had other plans in Dade County Florida.
796078
YES, more than any election in the past, and it is being printed on expensive paper....what a waste for something that is just being tossed out !!  Oh, and by the way, I have received mail from democrats persuading me not to vote for their opponent too.  Did I mention all the phone calls too?
836216
The coasts are liberal (blue) states. They don't care about being fair they want power. Evidenced by recent, except this past, elections they can't win on a level field. \n\n\nSupporters don't care about negative consequences, they too only want to win. Why, after recent elections all had lawsuits, did this past election not have any?  Because the liberals won, so nobody cheated this time? I don't buy it!
703224
it is the up comming election, when the democrats find out that the nation is still voting republician.  And of course another time they can sue and claim they really won but the election was stolen from them again.\n\nBut all jokinig aside, it is just another mid term election,  the party that is in power may or may not change.  But nothing really will change,  Bush is going into the last 2 years, which is his lame duck years so little should be expected at best anyway.
715483
It is very disconcerting to hear that many of the new voting machines do not give receipts, or copies to the voters, or to anyone else.  If there is a malfunction or fraud, there will be no way to verify the results and there will be no possibility for a recount.  This may cast a big cloud over the election for voters in either party, but especially for the losers.  I don't like that news.
444285
This presidency has already failed. Things should improve after the November elections because we will have checks and balances again.  \n\nPeople are soooooo disillusioned with the Republicans....... The majority in congress will have to change hands and there will be more accountability in the executive branch.\n\nThat is, if we don't have massive vote fraud like in Florida and Ohio, last time. Watch out for those voting machines with no paper trial.
1107549
The last two elections were rigged why do you think the repukes will do any different this time. We need to go back in time to paper ballots and a equal election board in every precinct to ensure free, open and honest elections. If it takes dipping my finger in ink to ensure that I do not vote twice and the dead people do not vote repuglican then that is what needs to be done.  Something is wrong with the repuke's if they do not want this type of an election. When it becomes more important that a candidate is elected then to have an election that everyone can look to as fair we have lost the American revolution and might as well give ourselves up to a dictatorship.
866171
Investigations into a full recount show that he won.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Florida_Recount\n\nBut he never got that full recount.\n\nwillys56cj5 and MEL T, you should have kept reading.  If a person votes for Gore, then also writes Gore in the write in area, it is a spoiled ballot, but it is obvious they voted for Gore.
881331
I think it's because the dummy democrats in Florida couldn't figure out how to do the punch card ballots.  Now they're whining that they can't figure out the state of the art electronic voting machines!  >Throwing hands up<  I GIVE UP!!
894316
because basically in florida jeb bush (bushs younger brother) is the governor. you would think that the state of florida would have bush's back but they dont. so basically when they start counting they see that the voted were going for the other person and jeb bush wouldnt have it and basically made them recount. like gore got tired of it so he just ended it when he should have really won. florida is just a messed up state with messes up officials and i am glad i left!
162092
I certainly don't. It was a shameful exercise in partisan politics that led to the Bush regime and our current hapless state.\nWhether you believe the election was fair, of course, is almost entirely based on your bias for Bush or Gore. For example, the incorrect purging of voters, largerly democratic, from the rolls certainly favored Bush. It's also hard to argue that the confusing butterfly ballot did anything but cause many Gore supporters to inadvertenly vote for Buchanan or to have their ballots thrown out. This is pretty compelling, when you look at the ballot and know the political makeup of the county. And, to me at list, the discrepancy between a number of the exit polls and the final results simply reinforces the idea that many voters were disenfranchised for a variety of reasons--and in a Republican-controlled state, guess who is most likely to be disenfranchised?.\nStill, if a simple recount had been allowed, disregarding some of the other problems, the recount probably would have favored Bush. If so, the case might have been closed.\nBut the way it was handled, concluding with the Supreme Court's unusual intervention, creates a controversy that will never end.\nAnd, as far as the popular cry, "get over it," discussing history is actually a useful concept. Maybe we can learn from what happend in Florida and Ohio, for example, we can actually strengthen our own  democracy. Similarly, maybe by revisiting 9-11 we can help strengthen our defense; by revisiting the decision to invade Iraq we can avoid such faulty decision-making in the future; by revisiting Katrina we can help Homeland Security do a better job.... \nSo, no I won't "get over it." Neither will I dwell on it except when asked about it.
757877
For the first time, I am answering a question... that I don't know the answer to!  However, I will say it's a DANG GOOD QUESTION!...\n\nGood grief, in Ohio they are announcing the Governor's Race and dozens of voting precincts ARE STILL OPEN!!!!  They extended the voting deadlines at many polling locations because of problems with the voting machines.  Less than 1% of votes have been counted...  So how do you KNOW who the Governor is, but still don't know who won the senate race?  \n\nMakes no sense to me.  I never put much stock in anything until morning.  Look at how bad the exit polls goofed in the 2004 elections.
324832
Since it's all a Republican scandal and there are numerous Republicans being indited by their own party members, I think it's a real no brainier there. Did you watch Saturday night live hacking on the Republican party. You might want to watch Meet The Press this morning too, when the Republicans start snitching on each-other. All of the baby boomers will be, and they are better than 80% of the vote.
67260
245,000 votes went unaccounted for in 2000 when he won. All votes from southern florida *a heavy democratic area** Al Gore lost by 879 votes. You do the math. THE GUY CHEATED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! now he's taking us all down with him... gwb blows
785478
366 votes.  Had they needed those votes there would have been a recount there as well. so it doesn't reall matter now 6 years later. \n\nIt didn't matter in Florida either, Bush won no matter how you count the votes.  And all the allegations were considered and thrown out as BS.\n\nAnd when they couldn't win in the Electorial Votes the Dems went on to complain that a majority of people didn't vote for Bush.\n\nDemocrats have tried since then to throw the President under the Bus.  Perhaps they will succede this time