re: #250 palomino

Your side caught a big break on the butterfly ballots, where hundreds of people (possibly more than Bush’s winning margin) voted for Buchanan rather than Gore. All water under the bridge now, of course, but the election couldn’t have been much closer…and the idea that we can determine a “real” winner in a state so close and so fucked up in its election counting is a fantasy.

That’s likely true. That butterfly ballot was a likely decisive ‘own goal’ for the Democrats of Broward County who designed it. But should a measure of fault be assigned as well to the voters for not reading the ballot carefully enough and misvoting? I’m not saying it should, I want to know what you think.