Just the facts.

1. Media Consortium Statewide Count of "Undervotes" and "Overvotes" Proves Gore Won Under ANY Standard

The Media Consortium hired the National Opinion Research Center to examine 175,010 ballots that were never counted in Florida. The investigation took 8 months and cost $900,000. No matter what standard for judging ballots is applied, Gore wins.

Gore Gain Gore Deficit
or Lead
Certified by Katherine Harris
-537

Valid votes found after certification +59
-478

Correctly marked paper ballots +493
+15

Full punches
+100
+115

Poorly marked paper ballot +309
+424

3-corner chads -208
+216

2-corner chads
-111
+105

1-corner chads -45
+60

Dimples with sunlight +88
+148

Dimples
-41
+107

Unfortunately, the members of the Media Consortium insisted on distorting the analysis of their own clear data (see "Spin Control" below).

2. Miami Herald Statewide Count of "Undervotes" and "Overvotes" Proves Gore Won by 662

Without counting a single hanging or dimpled chad, Gore won by 662, according to the Miami Herald. The votes below were crystal clear votes as determined by the Herald's accounting firm, BDO Seidman. Under Florida law, all of these ballots should have been counted by election officials on Election Day. Their failure to do so is Official Misconduct, not "Voter Error"!

Gore Gain Gore Deficit
or Lead
Certified by Katherine Harris
-537

Clear "Undervotes" (optical scan) +319
-218

Clear "Undervotes" (punch card) +198
-20

Clear "Overvotes"
+682
+662

Unfortunately, the Herald insists on distorting the analysis of its own clear data (see "Spin Control" below).

3. Other Media Counts Lead to the Same Conclusion

You can see the same data in greater detail here:
The Miami Herald
Unknown News
Date Event Gore Gain Gore Deficit
or Lead
11/27/00 Certified by Katherine Harris -537

12/8/00 Florida Supreme Court ruling +383 -154
12/18/00 Lake County (Orlando Sentinel) +130 - 24
12/19/00 Broward (Palm Beach Post) +164 +140
12/29/00 Hernando (Hernando Today) +4 +144
12/30/00 Hillsborough (Tampa Tribune) +120 +264
1/3/01 Gadsden (Democrats.com) +40 +304
1/14/01 Miami-Dade #1 (Palm Beach Post) - minus prior recount included in 12/8
-6
+11
-209 +100
1/20/01 Collier (Naples News) -226 -126
1/27/01 Palm Beach #1 (Palm Beach Post) +682 +556
1/28/01 15 County (Orlando Sentinel) -minus prior recounts in Lake and Gadsden +366
-170 +752
2/10/01 Orange (Orlando Sentinel) +203 +955
2/15/01 Seminole (Orlando Sentinel) +13 +968
2/26/01 Miami-Dade #2 (Miami Herald)
also: how the media twisted this recount into a "Gore lost" story +49 +1,017
3/8/01 Osceola (Orlando Sentinel) +25 +1,042
3/10/01 Palm Beach #2 (Palm Beach Post) +102 +1,144
3/10/01 Martin, St. Lucie (Palm Beach Post) +92 +1,236
Total Gore Gain from Recounts +1,773

4. Overvote Analysis - Gore's True Margin of Victory

If every county in Florida - not just the Republican ones - had state-of-the-art voting machines that allowed voters to correct their mistakes, Al Gore would have won by 46,466.

Date Event Gore Gain Gore Deficit
or Lead
1/28/01 Analysis of overvotes in 8 counties by the Washington Post +28,510
+28,510

1/28/01 Analysis of overvotes in 15 counties by the Orlando Sun-Sentinel +944
+29,454

2/8/01 Gore-Libertarian overvotes in 16 counties by Orlando Sun-Sentinel +797
+30,257

3/10/01 Analysis of overvotes in Palm Beach County by the Palm Beach Post (overlaps Washington Post analysis above) +6,607

5/11/01 Analysis of overvotes statewide by the Miami Herald (overlaps with all of the above) +46,466

5. Disputed Votes

There are several categories of votes that have been widely disputed. Unlike the votes above, these disputed votes could not have been resolved by county canvassing boards, either on election night or during the subsequent recounts.

It is impossible to quantify most of these categories, but we can try to give our best estimates.

Categories favoring Gore

Absentee ballots cast statewide by Republican voters following the illegal solicitation of absentee ballots by the Florida Republican Party: 50,000?
Absentee ballots that could not be read by voting machines, but were illegally "duplicated" by county election officials: 10,000 (60% Bush?)
Legal voters who were disenfranchised by Katherine Harris through the criminally inaccurate purge of "felons": 1,100 (90% Gore)
Absentee ballots cast in Seminole and Martin counties by Republican voters following the criminal alteration of defective ballot applications by Republican operatives: 5,000 (99% Bush)
Votes meant for Gore but cast for Buchanan because of the "butterfly ballot" in Palm Beach: 3,000 (100% Gore)
Voters who went to the polls but were unable to cast a vote because of language problems (and no translators) or physical disability: (70% Gore)
Registrations submitted from black colleges but not processed: (90% Gore)
Overseas military ballots that were not legal, but were counted because of massive pressure from the Bush campaign: 680 (71% Bush)
Police checkpoints near black precincts: 0
Categories favoring Bush

Illegal votes by felons: 5,600 (90% Gore?)
Premature network projections for Gore 10 minutes before polls closed in the Panhandle: 10 (60% Bush?)
6. Racial Discrimination

Florida voters were not treated equally. If you were black, your vote was significantly less likely to be counted. This was not because blacks were less experienced voters - this was due to institutional racism.

Whose Votes Don't Count?: An Analysis of Spoiled Ballots in the 2000 Florida Election
Report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
NAACP et al v. Katherine Harris et al
Votes of Poor Are Discarded 3 Times More than Votes of Rich Across the US