starting a second campaign for the white house. his campaign chairman in florida announcing the campaign will support lawsuits over the issue of ballot irregularities in palm beach. i cast a vote for gore but at the same time, i must have punched the buchanan column, as well. there was the butterfly ballot in palm beach county where an awful lot of people thought they were voting for al gore but because of the way the ballot was designed, they ended up voting for pat buchanan, and believe me, those two candidates had nothing in common. pat, good evening. hi, charlie. do you really think you got 3,400 votes in palm beach county? yes, i do, but i believe some of those were intended for al gore. i think if it hadn t been for the butterfly ballot, al gore would have been president of the united states. a hand recount of the vote is already under way tonight in palm beach county. one of four florida counties
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right now democrats have an advantage. axios is looking at the variety of ways to hack an election. what did you find out? this is the new butterfly ballot. the new butterfly ballot is the convoluted system we have across 50 state elections, flash drives and wireless connections and regular old e-mail. you look across how we physically vote and you see a lot of what my grandma used to call chewing gum and bailing wire. a system where we register to vote which can be hacked. the database that then is created of those registrations. look at the polling books that they have at the polling places, sometimes electronic. sometimes on paper. sometimes from third-party vendors that introduce their own vulnerabilities. look at the way we count it that s different in all these places often with no paper trail. and you add all this up, and you see that there s so many points
of the gray zone. this may be a term that s not familiar to people at home. this is one that you really want to start paying attention to. it s in the gray zone that these weaker actors like russia can effectively take on the united states and the nsa director just testified that in the worst case scenario he sees the manipulation of data and senator mccain said could you see the effect on voter tallies or voter rolls? he said it could be possibility in the future. to date we ve seen the going inside of systems and stealing that data out for some kind of economic or military benefit. bill: thank you. it s a long way from the butterfly ballot. technology and elections will keep on coming one after the other. shannon: people may want to go back to the hanging chads and ballots. bill: i don t.
then a few miles southwest of the town of wamego, a local farmer found an individual in one of his vehicles. in florida, the polls have barely been open and the first reports of voting irregularities begin to surface. i got a call from my sister early in the morning who lived in boca raton, florida, at the time and who said i think the ballot here is very confusing. i just looked at it and looked at it and looked at it. it took me about 10 to 15 minutes to try to make sure i voted for al gore. we didn t have a name for it at that point, but it was called the butterfly ballot. they had that so-called butterfly ballot where a lot of people presumably voted for al gore, but the way it was actually done they voted for pat buchanan. there was nothing we could do about it.
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