Measuring Election Performance
Author(s)
Alvarez, R. Michael
Date Issued
December 11, 2009
Publisher
Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project
Series/Report no.
VTP Working Paper Series;94
Abstract
The 2000 presidential election was one of the closest elections in American history. A margin of about 550,000 votes separated Al Gore from George Bush, only about 0.52% of votes cast. And despite the fact that Gore received more of the popular vote than Bush, after a contentious situation in Florida and a U.S. Supreme Court decision, Bush was the recipient of more Electoral College votes than Gore (271 to 266) and Bush became president.
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