Title: Dispelling the Myth of Election 2000: Did Nader Cost Gore the Election?
Headings: 
Dispelling the Myth of Election 2000:
Did Nader Cost Gore the Election?
Questioning the Myth
Disenfranchised By Design?
Voting Systems and Procedures
Ballots discarded
as "over-votes"
Paper and Pencil Ballot
Butterfly Ballot
The Infamous Butterfly Ballot
The "Supreme" Test
Florida Voters
"Democrats for Bush, Democrats for nobody"
The Final Count
Conclusion
Bibliography

Content: the database company] also used race as a matching criterion, skewing the impact of the errors even more against black voters" (Borger & Palast, 2001). As The Nation magazine reported, "immediately after the November 7, 2000 election, minority voters who had never committed crimes complained of having had their names removed from voting rolls in a purge of ‘ex-felons,’ of being denied translation services required by law, … and of harassment by poll workers and law-enforcement officials." The list of voters denied the right to vote was overwhelmingly Democratic and half were minorities (Kelly, 2002). Al Gore neither protested the disenfranchisement nor supported these voters’ lawsuit to regain their vote. Voting Systems and Procedures
Voting systems throughout Florida (as well as the country) varied in makeup, and some had seriously flawed ballots. Since the 2000 presidential election, 11,000 election-related complaints have been registered in Florida, and some reforms have been implemented. Ballots discarded
as "over-votes"
Impossible to discern voter intent or is ambiguity in the eye of the beholder? Paper and Pencil Ballot
Some Florida counties used a paper and pencil ballot. Some of these counties sent their ballots to the county seat (election headquarters) for tabulation, while others tallied votes at the polling place. When votes were counted at a county election headquarters, voters were not given a chance to revote if they had made a mistake, such as double voting or making an illegible mark on a ballot, and, in this scenario, African-Americans were four times as likely as whites to have their ballots thrown out (Keating & Mintz, 2001).