The second memory: there was an independent effort to go ahead and count the Florida ballots under the sort of careful, time-consuming process that Bush v Gore short-circuited.
It found that “if the disputes over the validity of all the ballots in question had been consistently resolved and any uniform standard applied, the electoral result would have been reversed and Gore would have won by 60 to 171 votes.”
Remember that? Probably not, because…
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