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Remember Florida's 'hanging chads' in 2000? Here's a look back at America's contested elections.
The weeks-long battle over "hanging chads" that ultimately landed the fate of the presidency in the U.S. Supreme Court, continues to cast a long shadow over the nation's political psyche.
As Florida's electoral votes fell under dispute, controversy ensued over hanging chads, dimpled chads and butterfly bullets.
At the time, the winner in Florida would decide the next President of the United States. The small vote margin triggered demands for a recount. The Florida Supreme Court sided with Gore and ordered the recount of all statewide “undervote” ballots, or punch-card ballots, that had been cast but not registered due to the Hanging Chad issue.
News outlets carried images of Florida election officials staring at hanging, dimpled, and pregnant chads on Florida's punch-card ballots, trying to "discern the intent" of the voters.
t. e. Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court on December 12, 2000, that settled a recount dispute in Florida's 2000 presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore.
From the beginning of the controversy, politicians, litigants and the press focused exclusively on the undervotes, in particular incompletely punched hanging chads. Undervotes (ballots that did not register any vote when counted by machine) were the subject of much media coverage, most of the lawsuits and the Florida Supreme Court ruling. [ 39 ]