On election night 2000, before the results were reported, MSNBC election coverage host Tim Russert held up a whiteboard and proclaimed that the election would come down to “Florida, Florida ...

That election — and two others — are among the most contentious in U.S. history. ... Remember Florida's 'hanging chads' in 2000? Here's a look back at America's contested elections.

The hanging chad on ballots in 2000 put more drama in a close race between Al Gore and George W, ... Florida revised its election count laws and eliminated the punch card ballot. ...

This election cycle, Florida’s election supervisors have mailed a record 5.6 million ballots to voters as of Thursday and have had 2 million of them returned and processed. In 2016, there were 2 ...

If you remember, "hanging chads" played a significant role in the unusually high number of invalid votes in Florida during ...

If only this scenario were unfolding in Texas. While election law in Florida is inconclusive with regard to the inclusion of dimpled, hanging and detached chads, Lone Star State voters need only ...

The day after the election, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said, "I think we finally vanquished the ghost of ... But the "hanging chads" came to define the election—and for good reason.

Roy G. Saltman, the federal government’s leading expert on computerized voting whose overlooked warning about the vulnerability of punch-card ballots presaged the hanging chad fiasco in Florida ...

South Florida is the state’s Democratic stronghold, ... Voter turnout surged in parts of South Florida on Election Day, ... thanks to reforms adopted after the “hanging-chads” fiasco of 2000.

ATLANTA (AP) — Florida’s “hanging chads” ballot controversy riveted the nation during the 2000 presidential contest and later prompted Congress to create an independent commission to help ...

Roy Saltman, election expert who warned of hanging chads, dies at 90 His 1988 report calling for the ban of punch-card ballots was widely ignored. Then chaos ensued during the 2000 presidential ...