This movie is frustrating

I agree, the use of punch card ballots, which were essential relics from the 1960s and 1970s was a real problem. You would think by 2000, a State like Florida could have more modern voting equipment. The Secretary of State no doubt was responsible for sticking the outdated voting machines in poor and minority districts. No doubt Katherine Harris did unethical things to stack the election in Bush's favor. Unforntunatly, the Democratic Party in Florida did little to stop her. They had the power to things like inspect all voting machines ahead of time, and challenge Katherine Harris' voter purge list in court. They didn't do any of these things. In fact the all democrat Palm Beach County Election Board designed and approved the "butterfly" ballot which may have caused 1000s to vote for Pat Buchanon, when they meant to vote for Gore. These are the things that are most frustrating.

So, by Election Day, 2000, the damage was done. Unfortunatly for Gore, there really was no legal remedy, once the election was over. I believe the reason the US Sumpreme Court stepped in was to supersede the Fla Sumpreme Court, which had granted, then ordered hand recounts without establishing uniform standards for counting undervotes. The bottom line is it was impossible to establish uniform standards for "interpreting" undervotes when you had several different types of ballots, all of which were designed to be counted by machines.

I believe Gore would have won Florida by a narrow margin if the State had modern voting equipment with only one type of ballot. It boggles the mind that in a society that values and touts its democratic tradition so much, we don't place much of a priority on having the state of the art voting equipment, with universal standards.