POL 51 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Research Question, Absentee Ballot
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Al gore (sitting vp of d party) The electoral vote: bush (271) and gore (266) and blank (1) Note: there are 538 electoral votes, and 270 are needed to win. The popular vote: bush (50,455,156; 47. 9%), and gore (50,992,335; Popular vote winner did not win the electoral vote. By and large, whoever wins one, wins the other. Scotus stopped the recount of votes in florida. Jeb bush was governor of fl at the time. Bush won florida by 537 votes and received all 25 of the electoral votes. Had gore won fl, he would have had 291 electoral votes and won the election (266+25=291) Many people experienced difficulty/confusion with the ballot. 11 groups of pbc voters filed lawsuits saying they intended to vote for gore but accidentally voted for buchanan. The problem here is that these people claimed they accidentally voted for.
