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(11,851 posts)cause they always cheat ,that is the simple answer
remember rove's on air melt down? so they don't always get away with it
just one quibble with ur statement....in 2000 it was the failure to count the overvotes that stole gore's election
votes that punched by gore's name and wrote in gore's name were not counted
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2006/1/7/176855/-
Yes, we were all focussed on the "undervotes," caused by hanging chads, and the like. I've never heard anyone analyzing the "overvotes," ballots with more than one indication of a presidential choice. I had always assumed that there were useless, because they contained two different votes for two different candidates. I was wrong:
Those votes are not ambiguous. When you see Gore picked and then Gore written in, there's not a question in your mind who this person was voting for. When you go through those, they're unambiguous: Bush got some of those votes, but they were overwhelmingly for Gore. For example, in an analysis of the 2.7 million votes that had been cast in Florida's eight largest counties, The Washington Post found that Gore's name was punched on 46,000 of the over-vote ballots it, while Bush's name was marked on only 17,000.