It's considered passe

...to still give any thought to the 2000 election. But there's been a lot of time to look through the evidence of what happened in Florida, and some of the results are quite different from the impression that we have gotten.

Everybody had thought that the chads were where all the bad ballots were, but it turned out that the ones that were the most decisive were write-in ballots where people would check Gore and write Gore in, and the machine kicked those out. There were 175,000 votes overall that were so-called “spoiled ballots.” About two-thirds of the spoiled ballots were over-votes; many or most of them would have been write-in over-votes, where people had punched and written in a candidate’s name. And nobody looked at this, not even the Florida Supreme Court in the last decision it made requiring a statewide recount.

It was mostly in black voting districts, where people are paranoid about having their votes discounted and thus wanted to be sure that their choice was clear. Sadly their care had the opposite effect.