Sunday, October 30, 2011

2000 Election film, Recount.


Eight to ten facts learned:
1.) Gore was only a few hundred votes down and not all votes were counted.
2.) The bits of paper punched out of ballots are chads.
3.) A chad that is not broken off all the way is a hanging chad.
4.) It took over a month to accomplish the recount, which was stopped and never finished.
5.) Originally, Al Gore resigned his candidacy but then took that back when he was informed of the trouble in Florida.
6.) Members of the Republican Party protested violently outside places where the recount was taking place.
7.) In a 5-4 majority, the US Supreme Court ordered Florida to stop the recount.
8.) Gore won the national popular vote but not the electoral vote, but he would have possibly had Florida had the recount still went on.
9.) A lot of the debating and action taken was accomplished by the members in the opposite parties close to the two candidates, but not by Bush and Gore themselves.

Eight to ten questions:
1.) Who decided to use butterfly ballots?
2.) Who first noticed the trouble in Florida?
3.) What would have happened had Gore not withdrawn his resignation in time?
4.) Was the Supreme Court conservative heavy?
5.) How do Bush and Gore feel about this movie?
6.) Was everybody accurately represented or was this a liberal-sided exaggeration?
7.) How factual is this movie?
8.) If the Republican party was so confident that Bush won, why were they so vehemently against recounts?
9.) Why do we go by electoral votes and not popular vote?
10.) Why doesn't everyone whose eligible vote?

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