Media Review of the Florida Ballots

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The right to vote is the right to have your vote counted.

This page contains links only from 2004 or earlier.

• National Opinion Research Center ballot-review project
• New York Times Exposé: Illegally Counted Overseas Absentee Ballots
• Miami Herald reviews (with USA Today)
• News Reports
  • Statewide
  • Duval County
  • Hernando County
  • Palm Beach County
• Editorials and Commentary
• Background Information
• See also Partisan Campaign Activities by the Florida Secretary of State's Office (separate page)
• See also Who Really Won? (separate page)

NORC Ballot-Review Project

• External site: National Opinion Research Center
  (The organization conducting the media consortium's ballot review)
• News Reports About the Ballot Data
  • Gore's Victory
    Robert Parry, ConsortiumNews, 12 November 2001
  • If Votes Counted According to Law, Gore Wins
    St. Petersburg Times, 12 November 2001
  • Bush Wins — If Not All Votes Are Counted
    CNN, 12 November 2001
  • Study of Disputed Florida Ballots
    Ford Fessenden and John M. Broder, New York Times, 12 November 2001
  • Who Won Florida? The Answer Emerges, but Surely Not the Final Word
    Richard L. Berke, New York Times, 12 November 2001
  • How the Consortium of News Organizations Conducted the Ballot Review
    Ford Fessenden, New York Times, 12 November 2001
• Reports About Voting Patterns
  • Ballots Cast by Blacks and Older Voters Were Tossed in Far Greater Numbers
    Ford Fessenden, New York Times, 12 November 2001
• Commentary About the NORC Review
  • Dissing Democracy
    Robert Parry, ConsortiumNews, 5 December 2001
  • So Bush Did Steal the White House
    Robert Parry, ConsortiumNews, 22 November 2001
  • Not That It Was Reported, but Gore Won
    Jim Naureckas, Newsday (in CommonDreams), 15 November 2001
  • Recount's Silent Stunner: Gore Should Have Won
    Paul Vitello, Newsday (in CommonDreams), 15 November 2001
  • Try This Recount Standard
    Marc Ash, Truthout, 13 November 2001
• Waiting for the Announcement
  • What the NORC Data Will Show
    Paul Lukasiak, 1 November 2001
  • The Media Cover-up of the Gore Victory
    David Podvin and Carolyn Kay, Make Them Accountable, October 2001
  • Muzzles All Around
    Chicago Reader, 19 October 2001
  • Did Al Gore win after all? US newspapers would rather not say
    Charles Laurence, Telegraph (UK), 21 October 2001

New York Times Exposé: Illegally Counted Absentee Ballots

• How Bush Took Florida: Persuading Officials to Count Invalid Absentee Vote
  David Barstow and Don Van Natta Jr., New York Times, 15 July 2001
Reprints:
1. Eugene Register Guard
2. Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
3. Minneapolis Star-Tribune
4. Orlando Sentinel
5. Raleigh News & Observer
6. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
7. San Francisco Chronicle
8. St. Petersburg Times
9. San Jose Mercury News
10. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
• Timely but Tossed Votes Were Slow to Get to the Ballot Box
  Michael Cooper, New York Times, 15 July 2001
• House Republicans Pressed Pentagon for E-Mail Addresses of Sailors During Florida Recount
  C. J. Chivers, New York Times, 15 July 2001
• Report: Fla. Accepted Flawed Ballots
  USA Today, 14 July 2001

Miami Herald review (with USA Today)

• Both Overvotes and Undervotes (May 2001)
  • The Miami Herald Overvote Analysis, Part 1: Choose Your Conclusion, Then Skew the Facts to Fit
    Paul Lukasiak, 14 May 2001
  • McVeigh Gets 2nd Chance, Gore Doesn't
    John Nichols, Madison Capital Times (in CommonDreams), 15 May 2001
  • Bad ballot designs cost Gore the election
    Dennis Cauchon and Jim Drinkard, USA Today, 10 May 2001
• Undervotes Only (April 2001)
  • USA Today Conceals Key Information in Recount Story
    Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, 11 April 2001
  • Florida Counties Can't Account for All Ballots Reported in 2000
    John M. Broder, New York Times, 5 April 2001

News and Information

• Statewide
  • Newspaper studies confirm Democrat Gore won Florida vote
    Patrick Martin, World Socialist Web Site, 5 February 2001
  • Florida 'recounts' make Gore winner
    Martin Kettle, The Guardian, 29 January 2001
  • Checks reveal thousands of tainted votes in Florida
    Adam Smith and Sydney P. Freedberg, St. Petersburg Times, 14 December 2000
  • Gore moves ahead in Florida recount
    Anthony York, Salon, 4 January 2001
  • News organizations continue ballot review, Gore gains votes
    Associated Press (in the St. Petersburg Times), 20 December 2000
  • After the result, it's time to count the votes
    Michael Ellison, The Guardian, 15 December 2000
  • Recount Redux: This Time, News Groups Petition for Ballots
    Associated Press (in the New York Times), 15 December 2000
• Duval County
  • Duval's election troubles deepen
    Matthew I. Pinzur, Jacksonville Times-Union, 24 January 2001
  • Duval election officials face suit
    staff and wire reports, Jacksonville Times-Union, 11 January 2001
• Hernando County
  • Ballots get a going-over, yet again
    Jeffrey S. Solochek, St. Petersburg Times, 29 December 2000
• Palm Beach County
  • Butterfly ballot cost Gore White House
    CNN, 11 March 2001
  • Disputed Palm Beach County ballots held potential gains for Gore
    Joel Engelhardt, Scott McCabe and Christine Stapleton, Palm Beach Post, 27 January 2001

Editorials and Commentary

• The Recount Is In, and the Supreme Court Loses
  Jeffrey Rosen, New York Times, 17 July 2001
• Attorney for Media Discusses Legal Battle for Access to Florida Ballots
  CNN transcript, 15 December 2000

Background Information

• Election Data Services
  Census and election information
• US Presidential Election Prediction Model
  Karl Sigman, Columbia University
  No matter how you analyze the data, Gore won

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