A quick comparison of the 2000 recount versus electronic voting

The Bush campaign was very upset when after the slobs who intimidated the recounting by chanting and throwing their little republican fists in the air, the recounting was moved to a "windowless" room. It wasn't windowless. But just to make a point, let's say it really was. Gore was up by around 200 votes, in the state of Florida, at this point. Of course that doesn't include the votes that Gore got from people who couldn't vote for him because they were illegally purged. The Bush election people were incensed by the action of moving the recount. They even claimed they were preventing a crime from being committed, by resisting the move to that room. Isn't that ironic. What I mean is this- Imagine that recount room is actually a small black box. Or you can also imagine that a small black box is a recount room. Either way works. And you begin to smell the republican hypocrisy. If that recount room is a crime because it is a windowless room that cannot be observed from the outside, in order to preserve the authenticity of the vote, then a black box is worse. Let's just imagine that that same recount room could be taken home at night to one of the recount member's home.

I'm not sure what this post accomplishes, if anything. It's just something that came to mind, when I was reviewing the clamor in those rooms during that 2000 election. And what the "orange" man who was defending the Bush administration had to say about it. Sorry, I don't remember Mr. Orange's name. But there is something here that can be used as ammunition in an argument to bring those who think electronic voting is just fine, without verification. Perhaps there was litigation over that recount room that might indeed be useful when used in a reverse situation.

At the very least I find it utterly disgusting that the same argument is used both against and for the same voting trouble.

to the Homeland Security lockdown in Warren County in OH in 2004.

Was Gore ever ahead during the recount phase? I don't remember that.

Dade County stopped its recount after 180 of the 616 precincts had been recounted. Gore gained 168 votes from those 180 precincts, suggesting it might have been very close to the 537 that Gore eventually lost by, if the same ratio maintained. Subsequent examinations of those ballots by the Palm Beach Post and other media outlets didn't give Gore much, if any, gain from those 436 Dade precincts. But that's misleading since we don't know how the same standard, and same panel, that got to the +168 would have played out, over the remaining 436 precincts.

The Dade recount might have finished if head judge Lawrence King hadn't decided to move the recount upstairs to a smaller room, away from the cameras and protestors outside. It made sense from a convenience and speed standpoint, but that move allowed the GOP thugs to get ugly in the hallway and elevators, seize the PR aspect of a hidden recount, and intimidate the panel into discontinuing the recount.

Gore's +168 in the partial recount was never attributed.