This is the name the
media have given to the
messed up ballots that were used in
Palm Beach County, FL during the year 2000 election between
Al Gore and
George W. Bush. The ballot had 10 presidential candidates on alternate sides of the column where you selected them with a hole punch. Much confusion resulted from this arrangement, and many votes went to
Pat Buchanan that were meant for Al Gore. This was a major issue in the days shortly after the election, becuase the entire country was waiting on
Florida, which had a margin of only about 300 votes between the two leading
candidates.
It went something like this (I left out the small print):
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(REPUBLICAN) | |
GEORGE W. BUSH ==> |o|------------------------
DICK CHENEY | | (REFORM)
------------------------|o| <== PAT BUCHANAN
(DEMOCRATIC) | | EZOLA FOSTER
AL GORE ==> |o|------------------------
JOE LIEBERMAN | | (SOCIALIST)
------------------------|o| <== DAVID McREYNOLDS
(LIBERTARIAN) | | MARY CAL HOLLIS
HARRY BROWNE ==> |o|------------------------
ART OLIVER | | (CONSTITUTION)
------------------------|o| <== HOWARD PHILLIPS
(GREEN) | | J. CURTIS FRAZIER
RALPH NADER ==> |o|------------------------
WINONA LaDUKE | | (WORKERS WORLD)
------------------------|o| <== MONICA MOOREHEAD
(SOCIALIST WORKERS) | | GLORIA La RIVA
JAMES HARRIS ==> |o|------------------------
MARGARET TROWE | |
------------------------|o| WRITE IN CANDIDATE
(NATURAL LAW) | |
JOHN HAGELIN ==> |o|------------------------
NAT GOLDHABER | |
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