Why was there voting controversy in the 2000 Presidental election?
The biggest nightmare an election official could have is a close election. They go to bed before an election, they pray that there is no close elections, because then every vote is looked at, individually, to see if it was counted correctly. And when the Presidential election in 2000 was so close, and certain counties in Florida looked like they were having problems: people said they were voting for one candidate, but the machine was marking another candidate. Because the way the ballot was designed, people were saying that their names were not on the registrars because they had purged the lists and not notified them that they weren’t registered voters anymore, there were problems in Florida. And I’m not just saying that’s Florida, that could be anywhere, but because of the closeness of the election, all that was looked at under a microscope. And you realize that there’s a lot of human error in elections. As long as elections are run by humans there will always be some small margin of
