10 years after Bush v. Gore, new concerns about voting

Bush v. Gore refers not only to the election of 2000, but the Supreme Court case, that ordered an end to the recount process in Florida and gave the victory to George Bush.

In that election, Al Gore won about a half million more votes than Bush, and if not for our electoral college system, would have been the President. Florida's electoral votes (unfairly many would say) were awarded to Bush after a month of counting and recounting, and a lawsuit over the process had reached the Supreme Court.

There were lots of reports of voting irregularities including confusing ballots, and out-dated voting machines that didn't properly record some people's votes on computer punch cards. The bottom line was that a lot of Americans never believed George Bush deserved to become President of the United States, and the Supreme Court, in a divided decision, was seen as making a unwarranted decision to stop the election for political reasons.

Since that time, the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) was passed by Congress to deal with some of the issues that led to the problems. This article helps update us on where we are today with voting processes across the many states and counties that all do it a little differently.

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BTW - The change some wanted us to see, a reform of the electoral college system, has yet to happen.