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Originally Posted by Matt 26z
The vote count for both candidates kept going up as the hanging chads fell off.
The ballots were ultimately purchased by a college who did a recount based on who the voter was attempting to vote for, and Gore was the winner.
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Can you provide a link? Up front I find it difficult to believe that anyone could do a count on who someone thought the voter was attempting to vote for. As I recall several news orgs and more than one University did recounts of the counties in controversy...and one or more did a recount of the whole state and all showed that President Bush won by more votes than was officially credited to him.
Btw hanging chads would be hanging because the voter attempted to vote for that person...so them falling off would raise the count. It was the counting machines that did not count hanging chads and that is what started the whole circus of counting hanging chads.