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Canvassing board paragraph

I could be wrong here but I'm questioning the validity of this statement.

"If the board discovered an error, they were then authorized to recount the ballots. [3]

The canvassing board did not discover any errors in the tabulation process in the initial mandated recount."

First of all, which canvassing board are we reffering to? One can't just say "the canvasing board." Obviously some of the canvassing boards thought a recount was in order. It is worth checking if Florida law allowed for recounts in any other circumstances other than error. This issue has been contested in the past, I'm not sure of the correct answer. Finally the second external link on the 2000 election page is "Full Video of how the 2000 Elections Were Stolen." This is very partisan to be listed as the #2 external link.



This article covers many of the events during and after the election, and their impact, but it does not cover factors that occurred before the election that specifically impacted Florida voters, such as:

Monica Lewinsky The obvious negative impact on the Al Gore campaign has been covered in general, but not in this article.

USS Cole A lack of response to an attack on the Cole could be one factor.

Elian Gonzalez Pre-Election discussion of Elian impact. 400,000 voters, 14 % shift, is 56,000 additional votes for Bush and against Gore. http://www.sptimes.com/News/110500/Worldandnation/Elian_swings_Cuban_vo.shtml Another pre-election discussion of the Elian impact. http://www.fairvote.org/op_eds/elian.htm FIU report of the Elian impact on the 2000 Election and on Gore not campaigning in the Cuban-American community. http://metropolitan.fiu.edu/downloads/battleground_20florida.pdf Textbook excerpt about the Elian impact. "However, in 2000, in the wake of Elián's forcible return to Cuba, more than 80 percent of Miami Cubans voted for Bush, who won Florida, and thus the presidency, by only a few hundred votes." http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9742/9742.ch01.html

Janet Reno Miami and Florida resident that as Attorney General sent armed units into Florida, and Waco.

negative campaigning Negative ads were heavily weighted to one side, giving the Bush team another advantage in a close contest.

Third party candidates If any ONE of the candidates had their votes instead go to Gore, he would have won. the comments about Ralph Nader's impact have been noticed, but it is true of any of the third through seventh place candidates.

I do not feel that these should be added to the timeline, which would by it's location put them at the top of the article, but a section for Other Influences in the Results could be added. I will leave this here to see other's viewpoints before making any addition to the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by CodeCarpenter (talk • contribs)

Hi there! The only suggestion I would make is to make sure that anything added is sourced by a quality secondary source (as some of what you said above is). As is a standard in many articles, if it isn't sourced, it's original research and will likely be removed. The Eliahn sources look fair. On the other hand, the USS Cole point may or may not be true, but isn't justified specific to Florida with a source so it's pretty much speculation. (To say what you have, you need a source that says, basically, 'The lack of response to the USS Cole caused change X in polls between times X and Y, and those polls are sourced here.') Good luck! Skybunny 15:50, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It seems that Elian Gonzales is the only of those that is really Florida specific. Of course the election was so close that probably even completely trivial things could have made the difference. Blah42 08:42, 8 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Removed Image:nytimes.svg

I removed Image:nytimes.svg from the article, on several grounds. The first is that it's somewhat POV, since it only shows scenarios where Gore won the election, while there are other reasonable scenarios where Bush won. More importantly, it's a bit confusing, since it's not totally clear what the bars mean. Finally, the report that the image is based on doesn't seem to be mentioned in the article text. — PyTom 21:07, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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