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voters on the scrub list were not, in fact, ex-felons He notes that they were, however, black—and likely to vote Democratic—90% of ex-felons who are allowed to vote vote Democratic In the end, the case went to the United States Supreme Court The Court decided, by a single vote, that Ms Harris’s certification of the outcome would stand, and George Bush became the president-elect of the United States All elections have stories of irregularities The 2000 election was certainly no exception What made it different was that the outcome came down to the votes in a single state The official tally in Florida had Mr Bush with 2,912,790 and Mr Gore with 2,912,253 What was the “real” outcome? No one will ever know Sources: Florida Secretary of State, John Fund, “Vote Early and…” The Wall Street Journal, December 12, 2001; Greg Palast, “The Great Florida Ex-Con Game,” Harper’s Magazine, March 1, 2002; and U S Supreme Court, George W Bush et al vs Albert Gore, Jr et al., December 12, 2000 ANSWER TO TRY IT! PROBLEM Statements (2) and (5) reflect a public interest perspective Statements (1), (3), and (4) reflect a public choice perspective [1] “Legislative Term Limits: An Overview,” National Conference of State Legislatures, April 22, 2005 Attributed to Libby Rittenberg and Timothy Tregarthen Saylor URL: http://www.saylor.org/books/ Saylor.org 834