"Ace" wrote in message
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This is very rum.

I ask a simple question and I get three different answers.

Q: Who had the greater number of votes [popular vote by context] cast
in their favour, Bush or Gore?

A1: Bush
A2: It doesn't matter
A3: No one knows


Actually, context implies electoral votes simply because the national
popular vote is meaningless.



I suspect the answer is Gore and you are all wrong.


The best answer regarding the national popular vote then is "unknown". The
difference was within the margin of error. There were a number of overseas
absentee ballots thrown out, those traditionally favor the Republican
candidate. There were instances of multiple voting and other fraudulent
voting that traditionally favor the Democratic candidate. It's likely more
valid votes were actually cast for Bush than for Gore.



My information is that Al Gore won 50,999,897 votes and George Bush
won 50,456,002 votes.


But Bush won more states and more counties than Gore.