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Greg — (archived)

Check this out:

If Al Gore had publicly conceded on election night, would there have been a Florida recount? Would the “Help America Vote Act” ever have been passed, triggering the rush to touch-screen machines? We’ll never know, but thanks to an internal CBS report and an e-mail written by the vice president of Research and Development at Diebold Election Systems, we now know that the unexplained replacement of a set of votes on a Diebold optical scan machine in Volusia County triggered a premature private concession from Al Gore to George W. Bush and resulted in TV networks' erroneously calling the election for Bush instead of deeming it too close to call. The final "offical" tally showed Gore losing by 527 votes, though the hand recount stopped by the Supreme Court later gave the election to Gore. Volusia County did a hand recount and straightened out the mistake. It is interesting to note that in the future there may be no paper ballots to recount, thus such a mistake would go uncorrected.

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