Election 2000: What Really Happened In Florida (Part 2)

This exposes the real reason for the 2000 Presidential election controversy in Florida.

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[SNDJPNS]

So if the media hadn't called the race before the polls were closed Bush's lead would have probably been a lot wider and there probably wouldn't have been a need for a recount.

[85763476]

Those ballots were full of crap. They threw away over 20000 ballots since the punch was hanging out. Idiots. Now look at our country.

[Flayprime]

Sore Loserman, I see that nobody is paying attention to what is being said in this video. It is pointing the blame at the MEDIA not at canidates. The fact that the panhandles voting record has been about 75% republican for the past 50 years... only supports nothing that democrat supporters in the below listed gripes it only points to the fact that they are uninformed and likely to follow any feel good notion.... Kinda like socialism.... it might sound like a good idea but it diminishes freedom.

[svvmichael1]

@KS4RonPaul Wow, you love to lie. The liberal media tried their best to discourage conservative voters from voting and cost GWB a minimum of 3k-4k in extra votes from the panhandle (and that is very conservative, it was probably a lot more). THEN GWB WON EVERY RECOUNT. NOT ONE showed Gore winning. NOT ONE. So the dems wanted to recount ONLY in liberal areas and got a court order to STOP recounting in conservative areas because they'd find undervotes for GWB. You are an idiot.

[svvmichael1]

@KS4RonPaul You are a total moron. The electoral college was set-up by the Founders so that small states would have a voice. It is not "a small group of men" as EVERY voter has a voice. If you vote in a state you have the opportunity to influence who gets that state's electoral votes. LEARN you incessant idiot. Are you smarter than our Founders? No, you aren't smart enough to answer the first question on "Are you smarter than a 5th grader".

[KS4RonPaul]

@svvmichael1 Yes because it's always a good idea to have a small group of men in control of the entire countrys vote. The electoral college was changed. States all used to hold caucus' where the delegates would be divided based on the actual percentage of votes. They added the primary, if a candidate receives 51% of the vote he receives all the delegates which basically throws out the other 49% of the state's votes. To me that sounds undemocractic. You sir, are the total idiot.

[KS4RonPaul]

So the news was in bed with the governer of Florida, Jeb Bush, who was working to fix the election for his brother George Jr. Clever tactic, announcing the win and closed polls would send any voter back home and reduce the number of ballots they would have to forge. So anybody feel like doing something next weekend, I'm going to have a couple friends over for beer and brats, who knows maybe a movie, and a revolution.

[svvmichael1]

@ournamestoolong only a total idiot would want to change the electoral college.

[SNDJPNS]

@joshuaschargers Josh you are exactly right. When people heard the polls were closed they didn't see any need to go vote. Plus that night our 6:00 local news was pre-empted to cover national coverage, so all people saw were "polls closed in Florida" when they were still open here in the panhandle. I know for a fact one of the guys I work with said he was getting ready to go vote when he saw the networks say the polls were closed, then called the state for Gore.

[SNDJPNS]

@tca274 ...until all the polls are closed. With the panhandle being in central time zone and the rest of Florida being in eastern time zone, I remember there was talk about moving the panhandle to eastern time zone to avoid something like this happening again. I have a better idea, don't call an election before all the polls are closed and don't say the polls are closed when they are still open, pretty simple if you ask me.

[SNDJPNS]

@tca274 I live in the Florida Panhandle and remember that night very well. As you saw in this video the networks kept saying "The polls were closed" when they were still open. That meant a lot of people hearing that didn't go vote because they thought the polls were closed, which probably robbed Bush of more votes. Then when they called the state for Gore (while the polls are still open) caused many people not to go vote upon hearing that. The bottom line is a state shouldn't be called..

[GregWn]

@joshuaschargers For example, in Palm Beach County you had hundreds if not thousands of people testifying they were fooled by the Butterfly Ballot, AND post evidence tallying of the ballots proved the point.