Big Conspiracies

[akirlu]

Okay, tell me again about how you can only pull off election tampering when the margins are close and the conspirators are few? Gore won Florida by 30,000 votes. Not counting the folks who were prevented from voting at all. Pointer thanks to Geoff Arnold.

Update: Mea Culpa. Kos made a close reading error and corrected it downthread. Apparently the unambiguous overvotes were in fact only the small but definite margin that we've known about for some time.

Comments

[avram]

Well, that's still a pretty close margin. There were almost 6 million ballots cast in Florida, so a margin of 30,000 is about half a percent.

So why is it that the Democratic blogiverse is just dicovering the Florida overvote issue now, when there were articles written about it years ago?

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Actually, I've been aware of the overvoting issue for yonks. That the margin was so large was (erroneous) news. And yes, for purposes of this discussion, 30,000 votes is a large margin. Since then, we've been to the Washington State governor's race.