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Bush Gore 2.0
Back when Florida threw out all those votes because Black people didn't trust the system down there so they ticked, and wrote in "Al Gore"... Officials called this "over voting" even though the same candidate was ticked and written, they threw those votes in the garbage and Bush won.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_elections_in_which_the_winner_lost_the_popular_vote
So they filled the box for Gore, and then wrote his name down, and those got disqualified?
I didn't follow this closely at the time (not American) but little tidbits like this pop up over the years and it's fucking crazy.
It was about Hanging Chads. Basically it was vote by hole punch and sometimes the paper wasn't punched all the way (Hanging Chad) so the vote wasn't counted correctly by machines.
These can be counted by manual recounts which clearly show the intent.
Supreme Court decided not to count fully perforated punch holes which gave the election to Bush.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_presidential_election_recount_in_Florida
Ah I knew that one, the above sounded like something else.