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I'll start.

Bush was elected by the Electoral College. The count of valid votes in Florida went to Bush, any way it was counted. The only way to get 179 thousand votes thrown out is to include the invalid ballots which had two holes, at least one of which was for Gore, aka the overcounts, as well as the valid ballots which had no presidential candidate marked aka the under counts.

The legislature of Florida had voted to certify Bush, if necessary. Jeb Bush immediately recused himself from the ballot count, an honorable thing to do, but not one that any Democrat would have done.

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I went to the original web site that this tripe was taken from. The web site has something to do with Chinese characters/teaching Chinese dialects. I found the original 'piece of work' near the bottom and managed to follow the links to several sites. Some sites no longer exist, some have questionable research, although several were mainstream (Pew research council, Slate). From the mainstream sites, quotes were frequently taken out of context or truncated to fit the author's POV particularly re: election, Andover.

I noted the the italicized disclaimer and found it interesting in its placement--just above the banner link to the tripe listed above.