Inaccuracies In The 2000 Election

A number of Americans fail to realize that when they vote they are not voting for the president and vice-president directly, but for electors who then cast their ballots in the Electoral College. Until the recent battle between Gov. George W. Bush and Vice-president Al Gore for the presidency, this new generation of American voters has never witnessed a controversial election. Historically, there have been problematic elections allowing voters to question this system. The Electoral College is now a process open to criticism and debate, specifically because many do not understand its origin or purpose today. On November 7, 2000, Election Day, I was excited to become an official voter.

The presidential election in the year 2000 was full of controversy. The election was incredibly close. There were accusations of “hanging chads”, faulty voting equipment and an election that was too close to call. Normally in an election when it appears as though one person is clearly in the lead the tradition is that the person who is losing “concedes” the election. This is an important part of the election process in the United States. In the election of 2000 the vote was so incredibly close that he retracted his concession. This threw the whole system into chaos.

The Presidential election of 2000 was a legitimate election. Throughout the entire ordeal of the recount in Florida, Presidential nominee, Al Gore, never took the lead from George Bush. There were four counties in Florida that the Democrats were trying to get recounted. Only 18 out of 67 counties were actually recounted (1). After election day on November 7th, Bush was ahead 2,000 votes; however, the problem was that there were 175,000 ballots declared uncountable because of hanging, dimpled chads or clogged up machines(1). Therefore, Gore’s campaign demanded a recount of all the ballots in counties that said that they voted for Gore. The whole thing lasted about six weeks because the Democrats kept asking for an extension, which the Florida

Vicki Lee Roach, a Victorian woman of Aboriginal descent, who was serving a six year term of imprisonment at the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre in Deer Park. Roach had alcohol, tranquilisers, and a cannabis-related substance in her blood. On each count, she received a sentence of between 12 months and 3 years, with a total effective sentence of six years and a non-parole period of 4 years.

The election of 2000 is a true story based on the presidential campaign between Governor Bush and vice-president Al Gore. This election was significant due to the controversy regarding Florida’s ballots and became the first election where the Supreme Court largely affected the outcome of the presidential election. With Bush leading the poll by 1,784 votes, this allowed Gore’s campaign to request a mandatory machine recount with a 0.3% difference in votes. However, many of Florida's counties refused to rerun the ballots in the machine. Instead, they would rerun the memory card. As a result, ballot chad's became the dilemma of the election and possibly change the entire outcome in presidential history. Under those circumstances, Gore’s campaigned

Presidential elections within the United States have always been an interesting insight into American politics and can often divide the nation depending on which candidate you support. Until the most recent election, many people would cite the Presidential Election of 2000 as one of the most divisive as well as the strangest elections that we have had in modern history. This was due to the infamous hanging chad from the butterfly ballots, disagreements in how to handle the recount between the different branches of Florida’s government, as well as the discrepancy between the popular vote and the electoral vote. We now know that George W. Bush was eventually declared the winner but what is truly important is how he managed to win the election

In addition to making elections too expensive for smaller candidates, the use of thirty second television commercials as campaign tools has shifted the focus of campaigns from positive plans for the future to simply offering negative claims about the other candidates. False claims run rampant in commercials because their is no mediator overlooking them. The networks will air virtually anything as long as the airtime is paid for. Although there are legal steps that opposing parties can take to stop false advertising, it takes days or weeks to get a commercial taken of the air. During that time, millions of people will have seen it and most will have accepted it as truth. The best defense against false allegations in commercials has become creating more commercials to counter-attack. Of course, all this takes money that candidates do not have unless they are backed by huge political

Ever since the first presidential election in 1789, the process of voting has transformed immensely; poll tax has been eliminated, and African American men and then women gained suffrage. Dependent on such changes, every American man and woman can vote, now including current college students, so the University of Texas at Austin presented a series of lectures to integrate current students to the process and significance of voting. Three speakers—Mark Updegrove, Bethany Albertson, and Michael B. Stoff—argued their perception of this year’s election—the scarcity of young voters, political anxiety, and the theory of a critical election—which each presenting a problem for the future of the status quo. Furthermore, these problems constitute the

The 2000 presidential election in Florida between Al Gore and George Bush was rigged before it even took place. Over 200,000 votes were going to be thrown out in one way or another. This election fraud was to be carried out by republican forces that run the state. Government Jeb Bush, secretary of state Catherine Harris and director of the bureau of elections Clay Robert's. This trio conspired before during and after the election to secure the 25 electoral votes for the presidential election. First they paid data base technologies $4 million to create a list of people they wanted disqualified for voting. They came up of a list of 8,000 names of people accused felons tough almost none were. They created another list of 58,000

On tuesday November 7th 2000, it was a long election night. The “endless election” they call it. The people waited to know who the new forty third president would be. Little did they know it wouldn't be for 36 days, December 9th 2000, before the new president would be named.

Since the third presidential election in the United States of America politicians and everyday people flung rumors around in attempt to discredit a candidate they did not favor. Democratic-Republican Party nominee and Vice President Jefferson called President Adams a hermaphrodite. Federalist candidate and then President Adams stated Jefferson’s father was a Native American, which in that period of history did not go over well with voters. These rumors may seem silly by today’s standards, but back then people believed in those tales. Even in recent elections candidates will call each other names, bring up bad history, make outlandish statements on social media, and pay for unfavorable ads about each other. Voters will buy into certain rumors

Opposition research is a key part in modern campaigns, however the increase in negative campaigning coupled with advancements in research techniques will create a more hostile election cycle. Negative campaigning has been a method that helped control those with a lot of outside factors affecting them prior to being elected. The right campaign ad with fact checked information is an amazing asset to a campaign team. Media has progressed to a point where they demand live, off-the-cuff news twenty-four seven from the campaign trail. This makes it hard for the well calculated responses the political community is used to less desirable. The right conditions have been meet to allow for an anomaly to take advantage of negative campaigning and using more media desirable taglines to gain popularity. This popularity comes at a cost however; the cost is damaging the success of getting the public to be more involved in politics.

Have you ever watched a television ad for an election, especially one that speaks negatively of a political opponent? Most likely, you were unable to escape the onslaught of these ads, as they play seemingly non-stop during election season. These ads are an attempt to frame your way of thinking, that by showing you a politicians flaws, you can see the opposing politician in a better light. A study was conducted, and it showed that while presidential campaigns are being held, the public’s view on their policy doesn’t sway too much. Instead, these campaigns are ways for politicians to persuade how to public feels about them (Markus, 1982). To be more precise, the main two factors that people look for in politicians are competence and integrity (Markus, 1982). This is why you see so many ads preaching how honest or dishonest politicians are, or ads that point out mistakes that were made years

Over seventy years ago, Joseph Stalin, leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, made a remark about the ‘democratic’ voting system in the United States. He stated, “...it is completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how." Joseph Stalin, who once was a totalitarian dictator, was able to see the loopholes in our democratic election process that the American people never addressed, or they simply ignored. An American’s vote no longer matters in the way that it used to; In fact, this is no longer an area of black and white, instead it has changed to an obscure gray field that shadows over all Americans. The prestigious land of the United States, where democracy has been held up for over two centuries, is no longer upholding the belief of one man one vote. Instead, it has allowed the 528 votes of the Electoral College to run rampant and impede on the founding beliefs that all Americans hold dear. Our voting process, with the Electoral College in charge, no longer speaks for the majority of the people in the United States of America.

Politicians use negative campaigning as a type of propaganda in order to win over votes. When running a campaign to win a position, politicians refer to their opponent negatively in order to have the advantage in the ballot. For example, in the 2012 campaign between President Obama and Mitt Romney, there was an ad accusing Obama of declaring a “war on religious values” because “Obamacare” did not allow organizations to reject covering birth control financially. In the end of the ad, the ad asks whom you would prefer to stand with in terms of religious freedom. This is a form of advertising that Romney used in order to gain votes. Negative campaigning started as early as the 1800’s. During the election of 1800, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both used means of negative campaigning in order to give each other a bad reputation. During the election of 1800, Jefferson called out Adams for being a bald and toothless man who just wanted to go into war with France and create a monarch. However, these negative accusations of the