The Networks Were Right in 2000

The networks are going to work very hard Tuesday to avoid a repeat of their mistake in 2000 by calling Florida for Gore. But they did not make a mistake in 2000 of misreporting who people cast their ballots for. They relied on exit polls, asking those on their way out of polling places who they just voted for, and the answer was that more voted for Gore than for Bush. That was true. But the problem was, because of the confusing butterfly ballot, so many people who thought they had voted for Gore ended up marking their ballots erroneously. The County Election Supervisor responsible for designing that ballot, Teresa LaPore, was voted out of office, but her term does not end until after the Presidential election. I haven't made time to check her 2004 ballot design, and I don't know if this supposed copy is true, but if you go to this link, you will see an interesting supposed copy: http://uggabugga.blogspot.com/2004/10/teresa-lapore-approved-if-document.html