Oliver Hall Presents Objective Evidence that Ralph Nader did Not Cause Florida to Vote for George W. Bush in 2000

Posted on by October 29, 2020

Oliver Hall, founder and general counsel to the Center for Competitive Democracy, here makes the case that Ralph Nader’s presence on the ballot in Florida in 2000 did not necessarily cause Al Gore to lose Florida. Immediately after clicking on the link, it is necessary to then click again, anywhere on the article itself, to prevent it from fading away.

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Oliver Hall Presents Objective Evidence that Ralph Nader did Not Cause Florida to Vote for George W. Bush in 2000 — 14 Comments

  4. I thought Al Gore lost Florida because the “butterfly” ballot was badly designed. Thousands thought they were voting for Al Gore when they actually cast a vote for Pat Buchanan.

  5. 2002 USA HAVA law –

    see the sentence esp written for ALL the 2000 legis / exec/ judic MORONS in FL –

    ie REQUIRED definition of a LEGAL vote.

  7. Many events have multiple causes. It is certainly true that the Palm Beach County ballot design injured Al Gore badly.

  8. @RKS,

    On punch card ballots, a certain percentage of chads won’t be fully punched out, and when run through scanners won’t be counted. The Gore campaign focused on Palm Beach County because it was strongly Democratic. If there were 1000 mispunched ballots, then 700 might be attempted Gore votes, and 300 would be attempted Bush votes. Punch card votes might also represent “voter intent”, if there is only one hanging chad for a race that might be what the voter intended. In addition you might be able to detect dimpled chads, where the stylus tip, deformed the chad without separating it.

    The Gore campaign was cherry picking counties. Only later did they attempt to focus on the butterfly ballot, to disguise their purpose. Remember that they were also claiming that many Jewish voters accidentally voted for Joe Libertarian, Gore’s VP candidate.

    There were many counties that had ballots that confused voters, including optically scanned ballots. Smaller counties used a smaller form factor. The default layout split the presidential race between two columns, with the Workers World and write-in on the second column. Some voters voted for one column A and one in Column B, naturally choosing the actual person.

    Duval County split the presidential race between two pages. Party workers encouraged voters to vote on every page, intending to make sure that they voted in every race, and not just on the first race, only to later realize that voters did what they were told to do.

  10. How many STONE AGE States do NOT have ***OFFICE BLOCS*** on ballots — with MORE/CONTINUED when required ???

    Where is that ***MODEL ELECTION L-A-W*** — written by armies of ***experts*** ???
    —

    How many olde DEAD punch card ballots / devices in museums — to educate kids about how rotted/stupid things were in baaade olde days ???

  12. It’s interesting that many people who have voted Green express regret about their “spoiler” role, but, I have hardly heard anyone who voted Libertarian do so. (Altho, I guess you could say that by his comments and actions, Bill Weld regretted being the LP VP candidate.)

  13. The math for the elections of names is strict, and must be followed exactly to attain the correct math for a one-party, two-party or three-party voting system.

    The United Coalition USA brings the correct math for the three-party system to Prez and VP, or the 539-party system to the 538-member Electoral College in four-year cycles, depending whether we calibrate up or down.

    http://www.pprelectoralcollege.com

  14. WZ –

    REAL LP folks do NOT vote for Statist EVIL —

    esp left Donkey communist / right Elephant fascist versions.

    Result — minority rule plurality regimes – left or right — deserving NO respect.

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