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The other interesting bit is that the butterfly ballot they used siphoned off enough votes from Gore to Pat Buchanan to make the difference.
Here’s how it looked:
Bush was the top choice, Buchanan was 2nd, Gore was 3rd. But reading down the left hand side of the page, a significant number of otherwise Liberal Democratic voters, punched the 2nd box instead of the 3rd.
People blame Nader for 2000 Florida, but the truth of the matter is that, had the counting been allowed to finish, Gore would have won.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/jan/29/uselections2000.usa
The other interesting bit is that the butterfly ballot they used siphoned off enough votes from Gore to Pat Buchanan to make the difference.
Here’s how it looked:
Bush was the top choice, Buchanan was 2nd, Gore was 3rd. But reading down the left hand side of the page, a significant number of otherwise Liberal Democratic voters, punched the 2nd box instead of the 3rd.
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/publications/butterfly-did-it-aberrant-vote-buchanan-palm-beach-county-florida