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Re:Google won't donate to members of Congress who voted agai... by thehappypm on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @11:09AM (#25917417)
It's disingenuous to say that Gore would have won if it continued. It was basically a tie to several decimal places -- every recount could swing the balance one way or the other.
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Re:Google won't donate to members of Congress who voted agai... by acdha on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @11:32AM (#25917744)
I was referring to https://web.archive.org/web/20011217183836/http://www.norc.u.... The key point being that it was a much closer race, with more screwups, and he had a plausible chance of winning the single state needed to flip the result. In contrast, Trump lost multiple states by much larger margins, nothing like the hanging chads or other irregularities, and full recounts didn’t show any statistically significant discrepancies.
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