They stole it in 2000,

[Awsi Dooger]

21. Poor ballot design led to over votes throughout Florida

Palm Beach County got all the headlines for the butterfly ballot but it was something like 20 counties had multi page or butterfly ballots. Voters would turn the page and assume they had to vote again. That second vote nullified the first vote, which often was for Gore. He was losing net votes all over the state, with the most famous example all the double votes for Gore and Pat Buchanon. Even Buchanon conceded those votes were intended for Gore and not himself.

Florida 2000 was a disaster all over the place, from the scrubbed voter rolls by Jeb Bush to the ballot designs to the Supreme Court decision, which obviously would have gone the other way if Bush trailed by 537. I believe Bill Clinton is correct that the vote would have been 9-0 to proceed with the recount under that scenario.

Democrats have done a terrible job of inspecting all the little matters, which really aren't little at all. There were high numbers of under votes in Florida 2018 for the same reason, some awful ballot designs in certain counties that caused voters to fail to notice the race because it was buried underneath lengthy ballot instructions.

I have no idea why Democrats can't have operatives assigned to check ballot designs in each county. Even if not in charge they can scream like hell to media, and warn voters beforehand, when the designs are incompetent and destined to lead to over votes or under votes.