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After Bush v. Gore: All the lessons we didn't learn about voting in America

I was a little too young at the time to fully understand the entire Bush vs. Gore situation and the recounting of votes. For all the things we were supposed to fix from that situation, we introduced a number of new problems at the time that are still with us today. Voter fraud and voter registration sound familiar? All issues that are just as big today as ever, especially since an important election year is just around the corner. I had no idea that they were relatively made up (at least according to this video) and are really terms to mask ways in which one party can creatively prevent certain voters from voting at all. That sounds pretty messed up. And overall, our voting system seems so unnecessarily complicated. 

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