• DoctorWhookah@sh.itjust.works
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      9 months ago

      One thing that I learned from that election is the small perforated dot in the ballot that is punched out with the little pokey thing is called a chad.

      Some ballots were thrown out because of the “hanging chad”; meaning the chad was still attached to the back of the ballot. Pretty sure all those ballots were for Gore.

      • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.ca
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        9 months ago

        And the butterfly voting machine where candidates were on the left and right side of a centre column of buttons. Causing many people that intended to vote for Gore to vote for someone else

    • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      Supposedly he lost because he asked for recounts only in counties where he was polling well, but then they should have ordered a general recount.

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      9 months ago

      I’d also like to complain about the electoral college again. Anything but going by popular vote is anti-democratic. The American system is so damn infuriating to me and it’s not even my country. But it affects us globally.