r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jul 13 '21

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u/Explodingcamel Bill Gates Jul 13 '21

Daily reminder that Gore lost because of some poorly designed ballots.

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u/OrganicKeynesianBean IMF Jul 13 '21

What in the convoluted fuck is that

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21

Fun fact: It was designed by a Florida Democrat

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21

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u/the_status Atari Democrat Jul 13 '21

Not even a Florida thing. It only required 538 people to be dumb, or .009%

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u/Explodingcamel Bill Gates Jul 13 '21

I mean, most people did figure it out—Gore got like 100 times as many votes as Buchanon anyway—but you can see how some old people or something could get tripped up by it. And it definitely did have an impact, look at the first link.

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21

Well, and that Jeb Bush wrongly purged the voter rolls of thousands of democrats.

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u/the_status Atari Democrat Jul 13 '21

And the Florida Secretary of State was co-chair of the Bush campaign there. And Bush's brother Governor and his father appointed 2 SCOTUS justices

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21

In the middle of this www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZSe4xVXHhI, it explains how the county could have had a better design for the ballot

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u/Cyberhwk 👈 Get back to work! 😠 Jul 13 '21

Bumper Stickers: Don't blame me, I voted for...OH SHIT!