Watched an HBO movie last night on one of the movie channels here - "Recount"; the "tale" of what occurred during the 2000 Presidential election, focusing on the State of Florida and the debacle that ensued.Like a car wreck, utterly fascinating and deplorable all at once.
While I may not be a fan or supporter of either individual involved, Al Gore and George W. Bush, the lengths to which both sides went to in the Fall and early winter of 2000 was mind boggling.
Just hearing and being reminded of some of what occurred still makes me shake my head in disbelief eight years later. There were 175,000 ballots just completely discounted and disqualified in that election. That's the size of a small city. One hundred and seventy-five thousand people got up that morning, went to their polls, thought really carefully about what they were doing, chose a candidate and then had their votes completely voided.
No comments:
Post a Comment