Word: frauds
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Xavier Suarez, who ran as an independent, won 61% of the absentees, forcing the contest into a runoff that Suarez won with a large number of absentee ballots. Carollo filed suit, claiming that Suarez forged signatures on absentee ballots. In March 1998, Judge Thomas S. Wilson Jr. found massive fraud and ordered a new election. When Carollo appealed, arguing he should simply be declared the winner without a new election, the higher court agreed...
...first time the Electoral College directly denied the presidency to the winner of the popular vote was in 1888. Grover Cleveland, running for re-election, beat Benjamin Harrison by 91,000 in the popular vote but lost, 233 to 168, in the Electoral College. It was a confusing election. Fraud tainted both results. Yet nearly 80% of eligible voters had gone to the polls, and though the popular-vote winner lost the presidency, no one in 1888 seems to have questioned the legitimacy of the result...
...lawyers dispatched to Florida by the Gore campaign announce that they have found evidence of "massive voter fraud": a glove containing O.J. Simpson's DNA found inside a polling booth. They produce records showing that Simpson, a Florida resident, did not vote in the election...
...count of absentee ballots put Vogel ahead of an opponent he had trailed on election night. That led two years later to a Florida Supreme Court decision that said elections in that state could be invalidated merely for reasons of Election Day error, even in the absence of outright fraud, so long as there was doubt that the outcome reflected "the will of the voters." But it did not specify when the remedy should involve ordering a new election, something Democrats have talked about for Palm Beach. And Florida courts have almost never gone to that length...
...fact, South Florida has had its history of problems with elections. Most recently, the entire 1997 mayoral election in Miami-Dade County was thrown out because of corruption and voter fraud...