2000 United States presidential election in North Dakota
North Dakota was won by Governor George W. Bush with a double-digit margin of victory of 27.6%. Bush won most of the counties of the state. He won all but two counties: Rolette County, which Gore won with 61% of the vote and Sioux County, which Gore won with 70% of the vote. North Dakota gave Pat Buchanan his best performance in the nation with 2.5% of the vote, whilst third-party candidates performed very well overall, obtaining a total of 6.6% of the vote.


2000 United States presidential election in North Dakota
Winning 60.66% of the popular vote, North Dakota proved to be Bush's fifth strongest state in the 2000 election after Wyoming, Idaho, Utah and Nebraska.


2000 United States presidential election in North Dakota, Electors
Technically the voters of North Dakota cast their ballots for electors: representatives to the Electoral College. North Dakota is allocated 3 electors because it has 1 congressional districts and 2 senators. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of 3 electors, who pledge to vote for their candidate and his or her running mate. Whoever wins the majority of votes in the state is awarded all 3 electoral votes. Their chosen electors then vote for president and vice president. Although electors are pledged to their candidate and running mate, they are not obligated to vote for them. An elector who votes for someone other than his or her candidate is known as a faithless elector.


2000 United States presidential election in North Dakota, Electors
The electors of each state and the District of Columbia met on December 18, 2000 to cast their votes for president and vice president. The Electoral College itself never meets as one body. Instead the electors from each state and the District of Columbia met in their respective capitols.


2000 United States presidential election in North Dakota, Electors
The following were the members of the Electoral College from the state. All were pledged to and voted for George W. Bush and Dick Cheney:


2000 United States presidential election in Ohio
The 2000 United States presidential election in Ohio took place on November 7, 2000, and was part of the 2000 United States presidential election. Voters chose 21 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


2000 United States presidential election in Ohio
Ohio was won by Governor George W. Bush by a 3.51% margin of victory. Prior to the election, most news organizations considered Ohio a swing state.


2000 United States presidential election in Ohio, Results
Bush won a 3.51 point victory. Bush performed strongly in most parts of rural Ohio. Gore kept the race close by running up big margins in Cuyahoga County, home of Cleveland. Gore also won the traditional working-class counties of Mahoning, Portage, and Trumbull counties. Gore only narrowly took Franklin County, home of Columbus, which at the time was a swing county but is now seen as reliably Democratic, having given Democratic nominees a majority of the vote in every election since.


2000 United States presidential election in Ohio, Results
As of the 2020 presidential election, this was the last presidential election in Ohio where the Democrat won Clark County, home of Springfield. Ohio kept its streak of voting for the winner in every election since 1964, but this was the first election since 1960 that Ohio did not back the winner of the overall popular vote.


2000 United States presidential election in Ohio, Results
Bush became the first Republican to win the White House without carrying Franklin County since Benjamin Harrison in 1888.


2000 United States presidential election in Ohio, Results
Official state results from the Ohio Secretary of State are as follows:


2000 United States presidential election in Oklahoma
The 2000 United States presidential election in Oklahoma took place on November 7, 2000, and was part of the 2000 United States presidential election. Voters chose eight representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


2000 United States presidential election in Oklahoma
Oklahoma was won by the Republican Party candidate, Texas Governor George W. Bush with a 21.88% margin of victory. Despite Vice President Al Gore's landslide loss in the state, he is the most recent Democrat to win any of its counties in a presidential election, namely Ottawa, Cherokee, Muskogee, Okmulgee, McIntosh, Hughes, Haskell, Latimer, and Choctaw. This was the last election until 2016 that any third-party candidates were granted ballot access in Oklahoma.


2000 United States presidential election in Oklahoma, Electors
The electors of each state and the District of Columbia met on December 18, 2000 to cast their votes for president and vice president. The Electoral College itself never meets as one body. Instead the electors from each state and the District of Columbia met in their respective capitols.


2000 United States presidential election in Oklahoma, Electors
The following were the members of the Electoral College from the state. All were pledged to and voted for George W. Bush and Dick Cheney:


2000 United States presidential election in Oklahoma, Electors
The slates of electors for the defeated candidates are as follows:


2000 United States presidential election in Oklahoma, Electors
Reform: Robert Kiwanis Bell, Jr., Isabel Faith Lyman, Patrick S. J. Carmack, Ivette P. Farmer, Earl David Shaffer, William Bruce Charles, Gregory D. Brown, Mary Patricia Ziglinski


2000 United States presidential election in Oklahoma, Electors
Democrat: George Nigh, Carma Lee Brock, Edmund Synar, Beulah Vernon, Jay Parmley, Rhonda Walters, Mary Jac Rauh, Obera Bergdall


2000 United States presidential election in Oklahoma, Electors
Libertarian: Charles Burris, Agnes Regier, Christine M. Kane, Mary Laurent, Anne Fruits, Jack Litherland, David Lewis, Lynn Atherton


2000 United States presidential election in Oregon
The 2000 United States presidential election in Oregon was held on Tuesday, November, 7, 2000 as part of the concurrent United States presidential election. Voters chose seven electors, or representatives to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice-President.


2000 United States presidential election in Oregon
Oregon has been a blue state over recent years, as it has voted for the Democratic Party in every presidential election since 1988. However, in 2000, Gore won by a small margin, partly because of a strong showing by Ralph Nader. Over the next two election cycles, the state would trend Democratic. Almost eighty percent of registered voters came out to vote on election day, the highest in the country. This marks the last time in which the margin of victory in Oregon was within a fraction of a percent, as Democrats would win the state by higher margins since. This is also the last time as of 2020 that the Democrats failed to win a majority in Oregon, while the state would also vote for the last time more Republican than the nation as a whole.


2000 United States presidential election in Oregon
Bush became the first Republican ever to win the White House without carrying Washington County. As of 2020, this is the last time Oregon has voted to the right of Pennsylvania or Minnesota.


2000 United States presidential election in Oregon, Results
Official state results from the Oregon Secretary of State are as follows:


2000 United States presidential election in Oregon, Results, Results by county
Official county results from the Oregon Secretary of State are as follows:


2000 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania
The 2000 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania took place on November 7, 2000, and was part of the 2000 United States presidential election. Voters chose 23 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


2000 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania was won by Vice President Al Gore by a 4.17% margin of victory. However, voter enthusiasm for both candidates was generally low throughout the campaign. Gore failed to capture Clinton's appeal in strongly Democratic regions such as Pittsburgh and Scranton, and thus carried these areas by a smaller number than his predecessor. However, opposition to George W. Bush was particularly strong in the suburban counties of Philadelphia; although these areas at the time were typically Republican leaning, they featured a strong culturally liberal bent, and thus Bush was unable to appeal to voters.


2000 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania
Bush support was particularly strong in rural, central Pennsylvania, where the Texas Governor appealed to Evangelical voters and where Gore's connection to gun control policies was strongly rejected. Marginal wins in both of the state's metropolitan areas helped the Vice President to capture the state. This was the first election since 1968 that the candidate who won Pennsylvania did not win the general election, and only the fourth time that has happened since 1916. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Greene County, Mercer County, and Lawrence County voted for the Democratic candidate.


2000 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania
Bush became the first Republican ever to win the White House without carrying Delaware County, the first to win the White House without carrying Montgomery County since Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876, and the first to win the White House without carrying Bucks County – which he had lost by precisely the same margin he had lost the state as a whole – since Benjamin Harrison in 1888.


2000 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania, Electors
The electors of each state and the District of Columbia met on December 18, 2000 to cast their votes for president and vice president. The Electoral College itself never meets as one body. Instead the electors from each state and the District of Columbia met in their respective capitols.


2000 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania, Electors
The following were the members of the Electoral College from the state. All were pledged to and voted for Al Gore and Joe Lieberman:


2000 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania, Results, By congressional district
Gore won 11 of 21 congressional districts. Gore won 3 that elected Republican representatives while Bush won 2 that elected Democrats.


2000 United States presidential election in Rhode Island
The 2000 United States presidential election in Rhode Island took place on November 7, 2000, and was part of the 2000 United States presidential election. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


2000 United States presidential election in Rhode Island
Rhode Island voted for the Democratic Party's candidate, then Vice President Al Gore of Tennessee, over the Republican Party's candidate, Governor George W. Bush of Texas. Gore ran with Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut as his running mate, while Bush ran with former Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney as his running mate.


2000 United States presidential election in Rhode Island
Rhode Island is one of the most reliably Democratic ("blue") states in the country. This state was Democrat Al Gore's best performance in the 2000 presidential election, where he won with over 60% of the vote. Gore won all five of the Ocean State's counties and won all but two townships.


2000 United States presidential election in Rhode Island
Ralph Nader, running a high-profile campaign on behalf of the Green Party with Winona LaDuke as his running mate, took 6.12% of the popular vote in the state, making Rhode Island his fourth best showing in the 2000 election after Alaska, Vermont and neighboring Massachusetts.


2000 United States presidential election in Rhode Island, Primaries, Democratic Primary (March 7)
Al Gore won the primary from Rhode Island and won every county except Bristol County and Washington County. The state was worth 32 delegates.


2000 United States presidential election in Rhode Island, Primaries, Republican Primary (March 7)
This primary was one of the very few states Senator John McCain won in the 2000 Republican primaries against George W. Bush. He won every single county, town, and city in the state. He also won all of the state's 14 delegates.


2000 United States presidential election in South Carolina
The 2000 United States presidential election in South Carolina took place on November 7, 2000, and was part of the 2000 United States presidential election. Voters chose 8 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


2000 United States presidential election in South Carolina
South Carolina was won by Governor George W. Bush by a 15.92% margin of victory. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Sumter County voted for the Republican.


2000 United States presidential election in South Carolina, Primaries
The Republican primary was held on February 19, 2000, with 37 delegates at stake. South Carolina would prove to be a crucially important state for then-Gov. George W. Bush after losing to Sen. John McCain in New Hampshire by 18 points. Bush won the South Carolina primary by an 11.5% margin, and took the lion's share of the delegates at stake.


2000 United States presidential election in South Carolina, Electors
The electors of each state and the District of Columbia met on December 18, 2000 to cast their votes for president and vice president. The Electoral College itself never meets as one body. Instead the electors from each state and the District of Columbia met in their respective capitols.


2000 United States presidential election in South Carolina, Electors
The following were the members of the Electoral College from the state. All were pledged to and voted for George Bush and Dick Cheney:


2000 United States presidential election in South Carolina, Results, By congressional district
Bush won 5 of 6 congressional districts including a district won by a Democratic representative


2000 United States presidential election in South Dakota
The 2000 United States presidential election in South Dakota took place on November 7, 2000, and was part of the 2000 United States presidential election. Voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


2000 United States presidential election in South Dakota
South Dakota was won by Governor George W. Bush by a 22.74 point margin of victory.


2000 United States presidential election in South Dakota, Electors
The electors of each state and the District of Columbia met on December 18, 2000 to cast their votes for president and vice president. The Electoral College itself never meets as one body. Instead the electors from each state and the District of Columbia met in their respective capitols.


2000 United States presidential election in South Dakota, Electors
The following were the members of the Electoral College from the state. All were pledged to and voted for George Bush and Dick Cheney:


2000 United States presidential election in Tennessee
The 2000 United States presidential election in Tennessee took place on November 7, 2000, and was part of the 2000 United States presidential election. Voters chose 11 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


2000 United States presidential election in Tennessee
Tennessee was won by Governor George W. Bush by a 3.87% margin of victory, despite having voted for President Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996 and being the home state of Vice President Al Gore. If Gore had carried his home state, he, instead of Bush, would have been elected president.


2000 United States presidential election in Tennessee
This was the last of three consecutive elections in which Tennessee was decided by single-digit margins, and as of 2020, this is the last election with such results. Since 2000, Tennessee has rapidly moved away from swing state status and become a Republican stronghold. This was also the first time a major-party candidate lost his home state since George McGovern lost South Dakota in 1972. Additionally, this was the first election where a presidential candidate won the state with more than a million votes.


2000 United States presidential election in Tennessee
As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Campbell County, Lewis County, Robertson County, Gibson County, Dickson County, Bedford County, Franklin County, Warren County, Henry County, Marshall County, Giles County, Marion County, White County, Hickman County, DeKalb County, Crockett County, Cannon County, and Decatur County voted for the Democratic candidate. This is also the last time that Tennessee voted to the left of Arizona or Colorado, as well as both neighboring Virginia and North Carolina.


2000 United States presidential election in Tennessee, Electors
The electors of each state and the District of Columbia met on December 18, 2000 to cast their votes for president and vice president. The Electoral College itself never meets as one body. Instead the electors from each state and the District of Columbia met in their respective capitols.


2000 United States presidential election in Tennessee, Electors
The following were the members of the Electoral College from the state. All were pledged to and voted for George Bush and Dick Cheney:


2000 United States presidential election in Texas
The 2000 United States presidential election in Texas took place on November 7, 2000, and was part of the 2000 United States presidential election. State voters chose 32 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


2000 United States presidential election in Texas
Texas was won by the Republican Party candidate, the state's incumbent governor, George W. Bush, by a 21.32% margin of victory. This was the first time since 1928 that Cottle County voted Republican.


2000 United States presidential election in Texas, Analysis
The 2000 election in Texas was a very partisan election, with nearly 60% of voters voting for the Republican Party candidate. The third party vote shrunk to a total of 2.7%, likely because Ross Perot was not on the ballot that year. The vast majority of counties voted heavily for Governor Bush as his approval rating and popularity in the state was high. Many of the long time rural Democratic counties, including those in East Texas along the border of Louisiana, swung Republican as the national party moved further to the left. Texas Democrats are more moderate to conservative by national standards, and many had a favorable view towards Bush because of his bipartisan approach with the Democratic state legislature during his tenure as governor.


2000 United States presidential election in Texas, Analysis
Bush carried 230 of Texas's 254 counties. He racked up big margins in the Texas Panhandle, East Texas, the Permian Basin, the Texas Hill Country, and the Gulf Coast. He won every major and mid-sized city with the exceptions of El Paso, Laredo, Brownsville, McAllen, and Beaumont, all of which were carried by Vice President Al Gore. Two thinly populated counties, Glasscock and Ochiltree, gave Bush over 90% of the vote, with the former being the strongest Republican voting county in 2000. This marked the first time since 1956 that a Republican candidate won any of Texas's counties with over 90% of the vote, and the first time since Texas native Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 any candidate has done so.


2000 United States presidential election in Texas, Analysis
Vice President Al Gore, the Democratic Party candidate, performed strongly in South Texas, which is composed of a heavy Latino population, and the city of El Paso. Three counties in East Texas voted for Gore by narrow margins: Jefferson, Morris, and Newton. This was the worst performance for a Democrat in East Texas since the 1984 election.


2000 United States presidential election in Texas, Analysis
The Green Party candidate Ralph Nader, had his best performance in Travis County, home to the state capital Austin, winning 10.37% of the vote. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last time a Republican won this liberal Democratic-leaning county. This is also the last time Robertson County, and the East Texas counties of Newton and Morris voted Democrat, leaving Jefferson; home of Beaumont and Port Arthur, as the sole Democratic stronghold in this region until Donald Trump won it in 2016.


2000 United States presidential election in Texas, Electors
The electors of each state and the District of Columbia met on December 18, 2000, to cast their votes for president and vice president. The Electoral College itself never meets as one body. Instead the electors from each state and the District of Columbia met in their respective capitols.


2000 United States presidential election in Texas, Electors
The following were the members of the Electoral College from the state. All were pledged to and voted for George Bush and Dick Cheney:


2000 United States presidential election in Texas, Results, By county
Many counties that Bill Clinton won in 1996 swung towards Bush in this election, in part due to the increasing conservative bent of rural areas and Bush's favorite son status within the state. Perhaps the most notable and surprising county to be won by Bush was the very liberal Travis County. Bush's win in the county is likely due to the somewhat strong showing of third party candidate Ralph Nader, who got 10.37% of the vote, his best showing in any Texas county.


2000 United States presidential election in Texas, Results, By county
Had those voters voted for Gore, he would have narrowly won the county by 5.16% (52.04% to Bush's 46.88%). This would be the last time Travis County voted Republican, and the last time third party candidates affected the results as in 2004 and onward, the Democrats have won and increased their margins, culminating in Joe Biden's 71.41% win compared to Donald Trump's 26.43% of the vote in 2020, a 44.98% difference.


2000 United States presidential election in Utah
The 2000 United States presidential election in Utah took place on November 7, 2000, as part of the 2000 United States presidential election. Voters chose five representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


2000 United States presidential election in Utah
Utah was won by Texas Governor George W. Bush by a 40.49 percent margin of victory. With 66.83 percent of the popular vote, the state proved to be Bush's third strongest state in the 2000 election after neighboring Wyoming and Idaho. The state also proved to be Gore's worst performing state.


2000 United States presidential election in Utah, Electors
Technically the voters of Utah cast their ballots for electors: representatives to the Electoral College. Utah is allocated five electors because it has three congressional districts and two senators. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of five electors, who pledge to vote for their candidate and his or her running mate. Whoever wins the majority of votes in the state is awarded all five electoral votes. Their chosen electors then vote for president and vice president. Although electors are pledged to their candidate and running mate, they are not obligated to vote for them. An elector who votes for someone other than his or her candidate is known as a faithless elector.


2000 United States presidential election in Utah, Electors
The electors of each state and the District of Columbia met on December 18, 2000 to cast their votes for president and vice president. The Electoral College itself never meets as one body. Instead the electors from each state and the District of Columbia met in their respective capitols.


2000 United States presidential election in Utah, Electors
The following were the members of the Electoral College from the state. All were pledged to and voted for George W. Bush and Dick Cheney:


2000 United States presidential election in Vermont
The 2000 United States presidential election in Vermont took place on November 7, 2000, and was part of the 2000 United States presidential election. Voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


2000 United States presidential election in Vermont
Vermont was won by Vice President Al Gore who won the state by 9.93 percentage points over Texas Governor George W. Bush, while third-party candidate Ralph Nader took nearly 7% of the vote, his second-best showing in the country in terms of percentage of the vote after Alaska. Gore's win in Vermont marked the third consecutive victory for Democrats in the Green Mountain State, and the last Republican candidate to win Vermont's three electoral votes was Bush's father, George H. W. Bush, in 1988.


2000 United States presidential election in Vermont
This election marked the first time in the Republican Party's history that a Republican nominee was elected without winning Vermont, and the first in the history of the Democratic Party that the Democrats carried the state with a majority of the popular vote twice in a row. This would also be the first time when Vermont would vote Democrat in a close presidential election as well.


2000 United States presidential election in Vermont
As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last time a Republican presidential candidate received more than 40% of the vote in Vermont and where the margin of victory was in single digits. It has also been the only time since 1988 the Republicans have carried any county other than Essex – which has become a bellwether county analogous to the longtime status of neighboring Coos County, New Hampshire, which had voted for the winning candidate of the electoral college every election from 1980 up until 2020.


2000 United States presidential election in Vermont
As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last presidential election in Vermont where a Republican candidate has been able to carry Caledonia, Orange, and Orleans counties.


2000 United States presidential election in Vermont
From this election onward, this state was the only state to be called by news networks for the Democrats at poll closing time 7:00 PM, and it has always put the Democratic candidate at 3 electoral votes.


2000 United States presidential election in Virginia
The 2000 United States presidential election in Virginia took place on November 7, 2000, and was part of the 2000 United States presidential election. Voters chose 13 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


2000 United States presidential election in Virginia
Virginia, a state that hadn't gone Democratic since 1964, was won by Governor George W. Bush with a margin of victory of 8.04%. The Old Dominion state was considered to be a reliably Republican state and it would not vote Democratic again until 2008. The 2000 election was the last time Fairfax County, Virginia's most populous county, would go Republican. Fairfax’s swing toward the Democrats in recent years has contributed to the state turning Democratic.


2000 United States presidential election in Virginia
As of 2020, this is the last time Virginia has voted to the right of Arizona, Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana or neighboring West Virginia. This is also the last time that a Republican won Northern Virginia.


2000 United States presidential election in Virginia, Analysis
Virginia voted for Bush by 8.03%. Although it was a comfortable margin, this made Virginia Bush's narrowest win in a state that had been carried by Bob Dole in 1996 (narrowly ahead of Colorado, which Bush won by 8.36%). Bush did well in most of rural Virginia, making some inroads into then-traditionally Democratic southwest Virginia, and also carried the highly-populated suburban areas outside Washington, D.C. (Fairfax, Prince William, Loudoun) and Richmond (Henrico, Chesterfield), as well as the independent city of Virginia Beach, which has a largely suburban character. However, he underperformed in Fairfax County, the most populous jurisdiction in the state, winning it by a slightly smaller margin than Dole had won it by amid his 8.5% national defeat in 1996.


2000 United States presidential election in Virginia, Analysis
As of the 2020 presidential election, this was the last time Russell County, Southampton County, and the independent City of Norton voted Democratic for president, and the last time Fairfax County, Prince Edward County, Albemarle County, and the independent cities of Fairfax, Danville, and Williamsburg have voted Republican for president.


2000 United States presidential election in Washington (state)
The 2000 United States presidential election in Washington took place on November 7, 2000, and was part of the 2000 United States presidential election. Voters chose 11 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


2000 United States presidential election in Washington (state)
The State of Washington was considered a competitive swing state in 2000, and both campaigns sent advertisements into the state. On election day, Gore won the state with a margin of 5.6%. Gore's best performance in the state was in King County, also the largest populated county, which he won with 60% of the vote. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Whatcom County voted for the Republican candidate.


2000 United States presidential election in West Virginia
The 2000 United States presidential election in West Virginia took place on November 7, 2000 as part of the 2000 United States presidential election. Voters chose 5 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


2000 United States presidential election in West Virginia
West Virginia gave its 5 electoral votes to the Republican nominee, Governor of Texas George W. Bush, marking the first time a Republican carried the state since Ronald Reagan in 1984, and only the fourth time since 1932. While West Virginia was traditionally a Democratic stronghold, Gore was seen as an environmental extremist due to the large coal industry in the state. This election marked the beginning of a political realignment in West Virginia toward the Republican Party; the Mountain State would become the only state to vote against George H. W. Bush twice and for George W. Bush twice.


2000 United States presidential election in West Virginia
As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which the Democratic candidate won Kanawha County, Harrison County, Lincoln County, and Wyoming County. This was the first time since 1928 that a non-incumbent Republican won West Virginia, and was only the fourth time since that election where a Democrat lost the state. It would also be the last time any candidate won the state by a single-digit margin, and the last time the state would vote to the left of neighboring Virginia. Bush’s victory in West Virginia also turned out to be decisive, as Gore would have won the presidency had he carried it.


2000 United States presidential election in West Virginia
As of 2020, this is the last presidential election in which a Democrat won any congressional district in the state and the last time the state was won by single digits.


2000 United States presidential election in West Virginia
This is the last time West Virginia voted to the left of neighboring Virginia, as well as North Carolina and Colorado.


2000 United States presidential election in Wisconsin
The 2000 United States presidential election in Wisconsin took place on November 7, 2000, and was part of the 2000 United States presidential election. Voters chose 11 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


2000 United States presidential election in Wisconsin
Wisconsin was won by Vice President Al Gore by a slim 0.22% margin of victory, a mere difference of 5,708 votes. This was the first time since 1988, and only the second time since 1960 that Wisconsin did not vote for the overall winner of a presidential election.


2000 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Electors
The electors of each state and the District of Columbia met on December 18, 2000 to cast their votes for president and vice president. The Electoral College itself never meets as one body. Instead the electors from each state and the District of Columbia met in their respective capitols.


2000 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Electors
The following were the members of the Electoral College from the state. All were pledged to and voted for Al Gore and Joe Lieberman:


2000 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Results
Wisconsin was won by a narrow margin by Gore by less than 6,000 votes. Gore carried Milwaukee County home of Milwaukee, and Dane County home of Madison, which contributed to his victory.


2000 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Results, By Congressional District
Gore won 5 of the 9 congressional districts. Both candidates won a district held by the opposite party.


2000 United States presidential election in Wyoming
The 2000 United States presidential election in Wyoming took place on November 7, 2000, and was part of the 2000 United States presidential election. Voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


2000 United States presidential election in Wyoming
Wyoming was won by Governor George W. Bush by a massive 40.06% margin of victory, and his 67.76% of the popular vote made the state his strongest victory in the 2000 election. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last time a Republican won Teton County, which after this election has become a Democratic stronghold. This is also the last time a nominee of any party carried every county in the state.


2000 United States presidential election in Wyoming, Electors
The electors of each state and the District of Columbia met on December 18, 2000 to cast their votes for president and vice president. The Electoral College itself never meets as one body. Instead the electors from each state and the District of Columbia met in their respective capitols.


2000 United States presidential election in Wyoming, Electors
The following were the members of the Electoral College from the state. All were pledged to and voted for George Bush and Dick Cheney:


2000 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia
The 2000 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia took place on November 7, 2000 as part of the 2000 United States presidential election. Voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


2000 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia
District of Columbia voted by an extremely large margin in favor of the Democratic candidate Al Gore with 85.16% of the vote. Bush got 8.95% with 18,073 votes compared to Nader who got 5.24% with 10,576 votes. A total of 44% of the population came out to vote. The District of Columbia has never voted for a Republican. One elector abstained.


2000 United States presidential election recount in Florida
The Florida election recount of 2000 was a period of vote recounting in Florida that occurred during the weeks after Election Day in the 2000 United States presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore. The Florida vote was ultimately settled in Bush's favor by a margin of 537 votes when the U.S. Supreme Court, in Bush v. Gore, stopped a recount that had been initiated upon a ruling by the Florida Supreme Court.


2000 United States presidential election recount in Florida
Bush's win in Florida gave him a majority of votes in the Electoral College and victory in the presidential election.


2000 United States presidential election recount in Florida, Background
The controversy began on election night, November 7, 2000, when the national television networks, using information provided to them by the Voter News Service, an organization formed by the Associated Press to help determine the outcome of the election through early result tallies and exit polling, first called Florida for Gore in the hour after polls closed in the peninsula (in the Eastern time zone) but about ten minutes before they closed in the heavily Republican counties of the panhandle (in the Central time zone).


2000 United States presidential election recount in Florida, Background
Later in the evening, the networks reversed their call, moving to "too close to call", then later giving it to Bush; then they retracted that call as well, finally indicating the state was "too close to call". Gore phoned Bush the night of the election to concede, then retracted his concession after learning how close the Florida count was.


2000 United States presidential election recount in Florida, Background
Bush led the election-night vote count in Florida by 1,784 votes. The small margin produced an automatic recount under Florida state law, which began the day after the election. That first day's results reduced the margin to just over 900 votes. Once it became clear that Florida would decide the presidential election, the nation's attention focused on the manual recount.


2000 United States presidential election recount in Florida, Recount
The Florida election was closely scrutinized after Election Day. Due to the narrow margin of the original vote count, Florida Election Code 102.141 mandated a statewide machine recount, which began the day after the election. It was ostensibly completed on November 10 in the 66 Florida counties that used vote-counting machines and reduced Bush's lead to 327 votes. According to legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, later analysis showed that a total of 18 counties—accounting for a quarter of all votes cast in Florida—did not carry out the legally mandated machine recount, but "No one from the Gore campaign ever challenged this view" that the machine recount had been completed.


2000 United States presidential election recount in Florida, Recount
Once the closeness of the election in Florida was clear, both the Bush and Gore campaigns organized themselves for the ensuing legal process. On November 9, the Bush campaign announced they had hired George H. W. Bush's former Secretary of State James Baker and Republican political consultant Roger Stone to oversee their legal team, and the Gore campaign hired Bill Clinton's former Secretary of State Warren Christopher.


2000 United States presidential election recount in Florida, Recount
Following the machine recount, the Gore campaign requested a manual recount in four counties. Florida state law at the time allowed a candidate to request a manual recount by protesting the results of at least three precincts. The county canvassing board was then to decide whether to do a recount, as well as the method of the recount, in those three precincts. If the board discovered an error that in its judgment could affect the outcome of the election, they were then authorized to do a full recount of the ballots. This statutory process primarily accommodated recounts for local elections.


2000 United States presidential election recount in Florida, Recount
The Gore campaign requested that disputed ballots in Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Volusia Counties be counted by hand. Volusia County started its recount on November 12. Florida statutes also required that all counties certify and report their returns, including any recounts, by 5:00 p.m. on November 14. The manual recounts were time-consuming, and it soon became clear that some counties would not complete their recounts before the deadline. On November 13 the Gore campaign and Volusia and Palm Beach Counties sued to have the deadlines extended.


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Meanwhile, the Bush campaign worked to stop the recount. On November 11, it joined a group of Florida voters in suing in federal district court for a preemptive injunction to stop all manual recounting of votes in Florida. Bush's lawyers argued that recounting votes in just four counties violated the 14th Amendment and also that similarly punched ballots could be tabulated differently since Florida had no detailed statutory standards for hand-counting votes. On November 13, the federal court ruled against an injunction.


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On November 14, the original deadline for reporting results, with the Volusia County recount complete, Bush held a 300-vote lead. The same day, a state judge upheld that deadline but ruled that further recounts could be considered later. Florida's secretary of state, Katherine Harris, a Republican, then gave counties until 2:00 p.m. on November 15 to provide reasons for recounting their ballots. The next day, the Florida Supreme Court allowed manual recounts in Palm Beach and Broward Counties to continue but left it to a state judge to decide whether Harris must include those votes in the final tally. Miami-Dade County decided on November 17 to conduct a recount but suspended it on November 22. The Gore campaign sued to force Miami-Dade County to continue its recount, but the Florida Supreme Court refused to consider the request.


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As the manual recounts continued, the battle to certify the results intensified. On November 17, Judge Terry Lewis of Leon County Circuit Court permitted Harris to certify the election results without the manual recounts, but on the same day the Florida Supreme Court stayed that decision until it could consider an appeal by Gore. On November 21, the Florida Supreme Court ruled unanimously that manual counts in Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade Counties must be included and set 5:00 p.m. on November 26 as the earliest time for certification. After that decision, the Bush campaign appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that the state court effectively rewrote state election statutes after the vote.


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As the manual recounts progressed, most of Florida's counties were considering overseas absentee ballots. That part of the vote count was completed on November 18, increasing Bush's lead to 930 votes. The Palm Beach County recount and the Miami-Dade County recount (having been suspended) were still incomplete at 5:00 p.m. on November 26, when Harris certified the statewide vote count with Bush ahead by 537 votes. The next day, Gore sued under Florida's statutory construct of the "contest phase".


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On November 28, Judge N. Sanders Sauls of Leon County Circuit Court rejected Gore's request to include the recount results from Miami-Dade and Palm Beach Counties. Gore appealed that decision to the Florida Supreme Court. Sauls also rejected Gore's contest of the election result on December 4, and Gore appealed that decision too. On December 8, the Florida justices, by a 4–3 vote, rejected the selective use of manual recounts in just four counties and ordered immediate manual recounts of all ballots in the state where no vote for president had been machine-recorded, also known as undervotes.


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The U.S. Supreme Court convened on December 1 to consider Bush's appeal. On December 4, the Court ordered the Florida Supreme Court to clarify its ruling that had extended the certification date. On December 9, the Court suspended the manual recount, in progress for only several hours, on the grounds that irreparable harm could befall Bush, according to a concurring opinion by Justice Antonin Scalia.


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Meanwhile, on December 6 the Republican-controlled Florida legislature convened a special session to appoint a slate of electors pledged to Bush, as the U.S. Constitution bestows upon state legislatures the duty to determine how its state's electors are appointed. On December 12, the same day as the U.S. Supreme Court ruling, the Florida House approved awarding the state's electoral votes to Bush, but the matter was moot after the Court's ruling. Some have argued that awarding the electors in this manner would be illegal.


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On December 13, Gore conceded the election to Bush in a nationally televised address.


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During the recount, controversy ensued with the discovery of various irregularities that had occurred in the voting process in several counties. Among these was the Palm Beach "butterfly ballot", which resulted in an unusually high number of votes for Reform Party candidate Pat Buchanan. Conservatives claimed that the same ballot had been successfully used in the 1996 election; in fact, it had never been used in a Palm Beach County election among rival candidates for office.


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Also, before the election, the Secretary of State's office had expunged tens of thousands of citizens identified as felons from the Florida voting rolls, with African-Americans identified on some counties' lists at up to five times their share of the population. Democrats claimed that many of these were not felons and should have been eligible to vote under Florida law. It was expected that had they been able to vote, most would have chosen the Democratic candidate.


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Additionally, this Florida election produced many more "overvotes" than usual, especially in predominantly African-American precincts in Duval County (Jacksonville), where some 21,000 ballots had multiple markings, such as two or more choices for president. Unlike the much-discussed Palm Beach County butterfly ballot, the Duval County ballot spread choices for president over two non-facing pages.


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At the same time that the Bush campaign was contesting hand recounts in Democratic counties, it accepted hand recounts in Republican counties that gained them 185 votes, including where Republican Party workers had been permitted to correct errors on thousands of applications for absentee ballots for Republicans. Alternately, Republicans charged that Democrats had registered non-citizens to vote, fought to exclude overseas military ballots, and arbitrarily changed vote-counting criteria after the election.


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Political commentator and author Jeff Greenfield observed that the Republican operatives in Florida talked and acted like combat platoon sergeants in what one called "switchblade time", the biggest political fight of the century. On the other hand, he said, Democrats talked like referees with a fear of pushing too hard, not wanting to be seen as sore losers.


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While Democrats did make their way down to Florida, there was nothing like the certainty or the passion that ignited Republicans. The only exception: African-Americans. For all the furor over Palm Beach, it was black precincts where voters had been turned away, denied a ballot because some had been mislabeled as felons, blocked from voting because of bureaucratic bungles, or because the huge increase in black turnout had overwhelmed local officials. For those with memories going back four decades, all this was no accident.


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It was instead a painful reminder of the days when the battle for the ballot was, literally, a life-and-death matter. At an NAACP-sponsored hearing in Miami four days after the election, prospective voters told of police cars blocking the way to the polls, of voters harassed by election workers. It was anecdotal evidence at best, and local authorities argued persuasively that the police presence near a polling place was pure coincidence. Such explanations did little to lessen the sense of anger among black Democrats.


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Various flaws and improprieties in Florida's electoral processes were immediately apparent, while others were reported after later investigation. Controversies included:


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Many voters in Palm Beach County who intended to vote for Gore actually marked their ballots for Pat Buchanan or spoiled their ballots because they found the ballot's layout to be confusing. The ballot displayed the list of presidential running-mate pairs alternately across two adjacent pages, with a column of punch spaces down the middle. Bush's name appeared at the top of the ballot, sparing most Bush voters from error. About 19,000 ballots were spoiled because of overvotes (two votes in the same race), compared to 3000 in 1996.


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According to a 2001 study in the American Political Science Review, the voting errors caused by the butterfly ballot cost Gore the election: "Had PBC used a ballot format in the presidential race that did not lead to systematic biased voting errors, our findings suggest that, other things equal, Al Gore would have won a majority of the officially certified votes in Florida."


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On The Today Show of November 9, 2000, Buchanan said, "When I took one look at that ballot on Election Night ... it's very easy for me to see how someone could have voted for me in the belief they voted for Al Gore."


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Although Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer said on November 9 that "Palm Beach County is a Pat Buchanan stronghold and that's why Pat Buchanan received 3,407 votes there", Buchanan's Florida coordinator, Jim McConnell, responded by calling that "nonsense", and Jim Cunningham, chairman of the executive committee of Palm Beach County's Reform Party, responded, "I don't think so. Not from where I'm sitting and what I'm looking at." Cunningham estimated the number of Buchanan supporters in Palm Beach County to be between 400 and 500. Asked how many votes he would guess Buchanan legitimately received in Palm Beach County, he said, "I think 1,000 would be generous. Do I believe that these people inadvertently cast their votes for Pat Buchanan? Yes, I do. We have to believe that based on the vote totals elsewhere."


2000 United States presidential election recount in Florida, Recount, Palm Beach County's butterfly ballots
The ballot had been redesigned earlier that year by Theresa LePore (Supervisor of Elections and member of the Democratic Party). She said that she used both sides of the ballot in order to make the candidate names larger so the county's elderly residents could more easily see the names.


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The case of Palm Beach Canvassing Board v. Katherine Harris (also known as Harris I) was a lawsuit about whether county canvassing boards had authority to extend manual recounts in order to inspect ballots for which the machine counter did not register a vote. The court ruled that counties had that authority and to allow time for these efforts, extended the statutory deadline for the manual recounts. It also stayed the state certification to November 26.


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Regarding the first issue, the court ruled that, while Harris was generally entitled to deference in her interpretation of state laws, in this case the interpretation "contravene[d] the plain meaning" of the phrase "error in the vote tabulation" and so must be overturned.


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Regarding the second issue, the court ruled that the statutory scheme must be interpreted in light of the Florida state constitution's declaration that "all political power is inherent in the people," with any ambiguities therefore construed "liberally." Preventing the canvassing boards from continuing to conduct recounts beyond the seven-day timeframe (specified in the law, but with ambiguity as to how firm it was intended to be), would "summarily disenfranchise innocent electors [voters]" and could not be allowed unless the recounts continued for so long as to "compromise the integrity of the electoral process." The court ordered counties to submit returns by November 26, until which time the stay of certification would stand.


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Aside from this case, also in dispute were the criteria that each county's canvassing board would use in examining the overvotes and/or undervotes. Numerous local court rulings went both ways, some ordering recounts because the vote was so close and others declaring that a selective manual recount in a few heavily Democratic counties would be unfair.


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Eventually, the Gore campaign appealed to the Florida Supreme Court, which ordered the recount to proceed. The Bush campaign subsequently appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States, which took up the case Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board on December 1. On December 4, the U.S. Supreme Court returned this matter to the Florida Supreme Court with an order vacating its earlier decision. In its opinion, the Supreme Court cited several areas where the Florida Supreme Court had violated both the federal and Florida constitutions. The Court further held that it had "considerable uncertainty" as to the reasons given by the Florida Supreme Court for its decision. The Florida Supreme Court clarified its ruling on this matter while the United States Supreme Court was deliberating Bush v. Gore.


2000 United States presidential election recount in Florida, Recount, Influential decisions, Florida Supreme Court appeals
At 4:00 p.m. EST on December 8, the Florida Supreme Court, by a 4 to 3 vote, rejected Gore's original four-county approach and ordered a manual recount, under the supervision of the Leon County Circuit Court and Leon County Elections Supervisor Ion Sancho, of all undervoted ballots in all Florida counties (except Broward, Palm Beach and Volusia) and the portion of Miami-Dade county in which such a recount was not already complete. That decision was announced on live worldwide television by the Florida Supreme Court's spokesman Craig Waters, the Court's public information officer. The results of this tally were to be added to the November 26 tally.


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The recount was in progress on December 9 when the United States Supreme Court, by a 5 to 4 vote (Justices Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg and Breyer dissenting), granted Bush's emergency plea for a stay of the Florida Supreme Court recount ruling, stopping the incomplete recount.


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About 10 p.m. EST on December 12, the United States Supreme Court handed down its ruling. Seven of the nine justices saw constitutional problems with the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution in the Florida Supreme Court's plan for recounting ballots, citing differing vote-counting standards from county to county and the lack of a single judicial officer to oversee the recount.


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By a 5–4 vote the justices reversed and remanded the case to the Florida Supreme Court "for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion", prior to the optional "safe harbor" deadline which the Florida court had said the state intended to meet. With only two hours remaining until the December 12 deadline, the Supreme Court's order effectively ended the recount.


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The decision was extremely controversial due to its partisan split and the majority's unusual instruction that its judgment in Bush v. Gore should not set precedent but should be "limited to the present circumstances". Gore said he disagreed with the Court's decision, but conceded the election.


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Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris's certification of the election results was thus upheld, allowing Florida's electoral votes to be cast for Bush, making him president-elect.


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Florida Attorney General Robert Butterworth in his advisory opinion to county canvassing boards wrote:


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The longstanding case law in Florida [ ] has held that the intent of the voters as shown by their ballots should be given effect. Where a ballot is so marked as to plainly indicate the voter's choice and intent, it should be counted as marked unless some positive provision of law would be violated.


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As the state has moved toward electronic voting, nothing in this evolution has diminished the standards first articulated in such [judicial] decisions ... that the intent of the voter is of paramount concern and should be given effect if the voter has complied with the statutory requirement and that intent may be determined. ... The Florida Statutes contemplate that where electronic or electromechanical voting systems are used, no vote is to be declared invalid or void if there is a clear indication of the intent of the voter as determined by the county canvassing board.


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There is a real issue here about what voting actually means. To some, voting is a right that should be guaranteed regardless of any incompetence, error, failure, or irresponsibility on the part of the voter. ... Others have a different view. They argue that American democracy is ... a far stricter, Lockean, Anglo-American system based on the letter of the law and a successful vote cast by a rational, responsible voter. In this constitutional system, the "will of the people" is an irrelevant abstraction. ... From affirmative action and hate-crime laws it's a small step to ensuring that all voters, however negligent, have their intent, however vague, reflected in the final result of an election.


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Florida Code Section 101.5614[5] states that no vote "shall be declared invalid or void if there is a clear indication of the intent of the voter." A physical mark on a ballot, at or near a designated target, is such an indication.


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The National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, sponsored by a consortium of major United States news organizations, conducted the Florida Ballot Project, a comprehensive review of 175,010 ballots that were collected from the entire state, not just the disputed counties that were recounted. These ballots contained undervotes (votes with no choice made for president) and overvotes (votes made with more than one choice marked). The organization analyzed 61,190 undervotes and 113,820 overvotes. Of those overvotes, 68,476 chose Gore and a minor candidate; 23,591 chose Bush and a minor candidate. Because there was no clear indication of what the voters intended, those numbers were not included in the consortium's final tabulations.


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The project's goal was to determine the reliability and accuracy of the systems used in the voting process, including how different systems correlated with voter mistakes. The total number of undervotes and overvotes in Florida amounted to 3% of all votes cast in the state.


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The review's findings were reported in the media during the week after November 12, 2001, by the organizations that funded the recount: Associated Press, CNN, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, St. Petersburg Times, The Palm Beach Post and Tribune Publishing, which included the Los Angeles Times, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Orlando Sentinel and Chicago Tribune.


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Based on the NORC review, the media group concluded that if the disputes over the validity of all the ballots in question had been consistently resolved and any uniform standard applied, the electoral result would have been reversed and Gore would have won by 60 to 171 votes (with, for each punch ballot, at least two of the three ballot reviewers' codes being in agreement).


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The standards that were chosen for the NORC study ranged from a "most restrictive" standard (accepts only so-called perfect ballots that machines somehow missed and did not count, or ballots with unambiguous expressions of voter intent) to a "most inclusive" standard (applies a uniform standard of "dimple or better" on punch marks and "all affirmative marks" on optical scan ballots).


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An analysis of the NORC data by University of Pennsylvania researcher Steven F. Freeman and journalist Joel Bleifuss concluded that, no matter what standard is used, after a recount of all uncounted votes, Gore would have been the victor. Such a statewide review including all uncounted votes was a tangible possibility, as Leon County Circuit Court Judge Terry Lewis, whom the Florida Supreme Court had assigned to oversee the statewide recount, had scheduled a hearing for December 13 (mooted by the U.S. Supreme Court's final ruling on the 12th) to consider the question of including overvotes.


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Subsequent statements by Lewis and internal court documents support the likelihood that overvotes would have been included in the recount. Florida State University professor of public policy Lance deHaven-Smith observed that, even considering only undervotes, "under any of the five most reasonable interpretations of the Florida Supreme Court ruling, Gore does, in fact, more than make up the deficit".


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Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting's analysis of the NORC study and media coverage of it supported these interpretations and criticized the coverage of the study by media outlets such as The New York Times and the other media consortium members for focusing on how events might have played out rather than on the statewide vote count.


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The NORC was expecting 176,446 uncounted ballots to be available from Florida's counties, based on county precinct reports that produced the final, state-certified vote totals.


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Orange County presented fewer rejected ballots to the NORC than expected. When the county segregated all ballots by machine for the NORC review, 512 previously rejected ballots were determined to be completely valid. Orange County then performed a hand segregation and determined that these votes numbered 184 for Bush, 249 for Gore and 79 for other candidates.


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The NORC adjusted its analysis for the Orange County results and a few minor differences by increasing the starting baseline vote total by 535 votes. In addition, some counties had provided an extra 432 total ballots, while others produced 1333 fewer ballots than expected. As adjusted, 176,343 ballots were expected, compared to 175,010 ballots actually provided to the NORC for review. The county-level variance from the total number of ballots was 0.76%. Thus, the project included a sample within less than 1% of the expected total of votes.


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Only a fourth of the variance consisted of optical ballots. Most of the variation occurred in Votomatic overvotes, the least likely ballots to yield votes in a recount. Among the nearly 85,000 Votomatic overvotes in the sample, there were only 721 reclaimable votes confirmed in the NORC study.


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From the beginning of the controversy,  politicians, litigants and the press focused exclusively on the undervotes, in particular incompletely punched chads. Undervotes (ballots that did not register any vote when counted by machine) were the subject of much media coverage, most of the lawsuits and the Florida Supreme Court ruling. After the election, recounts conducted by various United States news media organizations continued to focus on undervotes.


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Based on the review of these ballots, their results indicated that Bush would have won if certain recounting methods had been used (including the one favored by Gore at the time of the Supreme Court decision), but that Gore might have won under other standards and scenarios. The post-controversy recounts revealed that, "if a manual recount had been limited to undervotes, it would have produced an inaccurate picture of the electorate's position."


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USA Today, The Miami Herald, and Knight Ridder commissioned accounting firm BDO Seidman to count undervotes. BDO Seidman's results, reported in USA Today, show that under the strictest standard, where only a cleanly punched ballot with a fully removed chad was counted, Gore's margin was three votes. Under the other standards used in the study, Bush's margin of victory increased as looser standards were used. The standards considered by BDO Seidman were:


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The study notes that because of the possibility of mistakes, it is difficult to conclude that Gore would have won under the strict standard or that a high degree of certainty obtained in the study's results. It also remarks that there were variations between examiners and that election officials often did not provide the same number of undervotes as were counted on Election Day. Furthermore, the study did not consider overvotes, ballots that registered more than one vote when counted by machine.


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The study also found that undervotes originating in optical-scan counties differ from those from punchcard counties in a particular characteristic. Undervotes from punch-card counties give new votes to candidates in roughly the same proportion as the county's official vote. Furthermore, the number of undervotes correlates with how well the punch-card machines are maintained, and not with factors such as race or socioeconomic status. Undervotes from optical-scan counties, however, correlate with Democratic votes more than Republican votes, and in particular to counties that scanned ballots at a central location rather than at precinct locations. Optical-scan counties were the only places in the study where Gore gained more votes than Bush, 1,036 to 775.


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Some media reports focused on undervotes (chad blocked hole, wrong ink or pencil used, partial oval mark not detected, humidity affected scanner, ballot feeder misalignment), while others also included overvotes (hole punched or oval filled plus a write-in name, other multi-marked ballots). A larger consortium of news organizations, including USA Today, The Miami Herald, Knight Ridder, The Tampa Tribune, and five other newspapers next conducted a full recount of all machine-rejected ballots, including both undervotes and overvotes. The organization analyzed 171,908 ballots (60,647 undervotes and 111,261 overvotes), 3102 less than the later NORC study.


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According to their results, Bush won under stricter standards and Gore won under looser standards. A Gore win was impossible without a recount of overvotes, which he did not request; however, faxes between Judge Terry Lewis and the canvassing boards throughout the state indicated that Lewis, who oversaw the recount effort, intended to have overvotes counted.


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According to the study, 3146 (3%) of the 111,261 examined overvotes "contained clear and therefore legally valid votes not counted in any of the manual recounts during the dispute." According to Anthony Salvado, a political scientist at the University of California, Irvine, who acted as a consultant on the media recount, most of the errors were caused by ballot design, ballot wording, and efforts by voters to choose both a president and a vice president.


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For example, 21,188 of the Florida overvotes, or nearly one-fifth of the total, originated from Duval County, where the presidential ballot was split across two pages and voters were instructed to "vote every page". Half of the overvotes in Duval County had one presidential candidate marked on each page, making their vote illegal under Florida law. Salvado says that this alone cost Gore the election.


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Including overvotes in the above totals for undervotes gives different margins of victory:


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The overvotes with write-in names were also noted by Florida State University public policy professor and elections observer, Lance deHaven-Smith, in his interview with Research in Review at Florida State University:


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Furthermore, the Florida Administrative Code: 1S-2.0031, "Write-in Procedures Governing Electronic Voting Systems", (7) at the time specified, "An overvote shall occur when an elector casts a vote on the ballot card and also casts a write-in vote for a qualified write-in candidate for that same office. Upon such an overvote, the entire vote for that office shall be void and shall not be counted. However, an overvote shall not occur when the elector casts a vote on the ballot card but then enters a sham or unqualified name in the write-in space for that same office.


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In such case, only the write-in vote is void." There were two write-in candidates for president who had been qualified by the state of Florida. Under the FAC, a ballot with any other name written in (including Bush and Gore, who were not qualified as write-in candidates) was not an overvote, but rather a valid vote for the candidate whose name was marked by the voter.


2000 United States presidential election recount in Florida, Post-election studies, Opinion polling on recount
A nationwide December 14–21, 2000 Harris poll asked, "If everyone who tried to vote in Florida had their votes counted for the candidate who they thought they were voting for — with no misleading ballots and infallible voting machines — who do you think would have won the election, George W. Bush or Al Gore?". The results were 49% for Gore and 40% for Bush, with 11% uncertain or not wishing to respond.


2000 United States presidential election recount in Florida, Television film
The Florida recount was the subject of the 2008 television film Recount, which aired on HBO. Directed by Jay Roach, it starred Kevin Spacey as Ron Klain, Bob Balaban as Benjamin Ginsberg, Ed Begley Jr. as David Boies, Laura Dern as Katherine Harris, John Hurt as Warren Christopher, Denis Leary as Michael Whouley, Bruce McGill as Mac Stipanovich, and Tom Wilkinson as James Baker. It won Outstanding Television Movie at the Primetime Emmy Awards, with Roach winning Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special, and Dern a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film.


2000 United States redistricting cycle
The 2000 United States redistricting cycle took place following the completion of the 2000 United States census. In all fifty states, various bodies re-drew state legislative and congressional districts. States that are apportioned more than one seat in the United States House of Representatives also drew new districts for that legislative body. The resulting new districts were first implemented for the 2001 and 2002 elections, which saw Republicans add eight seats to their U.S. House majority, capture eight state legislative chambers and win a majority of state legislative seats for the first time in half a century.


2000 United States redistricting cycle
The districts drawn in the 2000 redistricting cycle remained in effect until the next round of redistricting following the 2010 United States census.


2000 United States redistricting cycle, Reapportionment
Following the 2000 census, Texas, Florida, Arizona and Georgia each gained two seats, while California, North Carolina, Colorado and Nevada picked up one new seat apiece. New York and Pennsylvania both lost two seats, while Connecticut, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, Oklahoma and Mississippi each lost one seat.


2000 United States redistricting cycle, Means of redistricting
Most states were redistricted by joint committees of state legislatures, with twelve states having set up either citizen-ran or politically appointed commissions to redraw legislative maps and six states having set up commissions for congressional maps.


2000 United States redistricting cycle, Subsequent mid-decade redistricting, Texas
In 2002, Republicans gained control of the Texas Legislature for the first time in 130 years, and despite a gain of two seats from the court-ran redraw of the Texas congressional map in 2001, set about to redraw the congressional map for the state to increase Republican gains from a narrow 17D-15R deficit. It led to a protracted standoff between the Democratic and Republican legislative caucuses which ended with the defeat of the Democratic caucus' quorum-busting attempt and the creation of new congressional maps which saw Republicans gain the majority of congressional districts in Texas for the first time since Reconstruction.


2000 United States redistricting cycle, Subsequent mid-decade redistricting, Georgia
After Democrats in the Georgia General Assembly drew legislative and congressional maps which protected against further losses, Republicans sued against the maps on voting Rights Act grounds.


2000 United States redistricting cycle, Subsequent mid-decade redistricting, Georgia
Following the 2004 election, which saw Republicans gain a majority in both houses for the first time in Georgia history, redrew legislative and congressional maps in 2005 after federal judges struck down both maps which were drawn by the 146th legislature as violating the one person, one vote guarantee of the U.S. Constitution, resulting in a reshuffling of districts which took effect in the next legislature which shored up Republican gains in both chambers and in Congress.


2000 United States rugby union tour of Scotland and Wales
The 2000 United States rugby union tour was a series of matches played in November 2000 in Wales and Scotland by United States national rugby union team.


2000 Uruguayan Primera División, Overview
It was contested by 18 teams, and Nacional won the championship.


2000 Uruguayan municipal elections
The municipal elections held on May 14, 2000, resulted in the consolidation of the EP-FA as the most popular party, a strong recovery for the Partido Nacional after its worst ever performance in the 1999 general elections, and a slight drop of support for the incumbent Partido Colorado of President Jorge Batlle.


2000 Uruguayan municipal elections, Overview
These elections were held 2+1⁄2 months after Jorge Batlle had been inaugurated president. Batlle, of the Partido Colorado, had been the winner of a presidential run-off on November 28, 1999, over Tabaré Vázquez, of the Frente Amplio. The 1999 elections had seen a major transformation of the Uruguayan political landscape, as the Frente Amplio had emerged as the largest party, breaking with the traditional PC-PN bipartisan competition, and the Partido Nacional had suffered its worst defeat in its history.


2000 Uruguayan municipal elections, Overview
At the time of the municipal elections, the Batlle administration  was in its early stages and was enjoying a honeymoon with the electorate. The Partido Colorado and the Partido Nacional had formed a coalition government, made up of 8 Colorado ministers and 5 Blanco ministers, and with an absolute majority in parliament. In this context, the two traditional parties faced off at the polls the emergent Frente Amplio, successfully defending all 18 departments ruled by them, the Frente Amplio unable to win any department aside of Montevideo.


2000 Uruguayan municipal elections, Overview
In the previous municipal elections, held simultaneously with the presidential and legislative elections of November 1994, the Partido Nacional had won 11 departments, the Partido Colorado 7 departments, and the Frente Amplio 1 department. As a result of the municipal elections of 2000, the Partido Nacional won 13 departments, the Partido Colorado 5, and the Frente Amplio 1 department. The Partido Nacional had a net gain of 2 departments, the Partido Colorado had a net loss of 2 departments, while the Frente Amplio remained unchanged.


2000 Uruguayan municipal elections, Overview
Following is a list of the departments in Uruguay, with the name of the intendente elected, his party affiliation and the fraction within the party to which he belongs:


2000 Uruguayan municipal elections, Overview
Montevideo: Mariano Arana (Frente Amplio, Vertiente Artiguista). Re -elected incumbent. Hold for the Frente Amplio.


2000 Uruguayan municipal elections, Overview
Canelones: Tabaré Hackenbruch (Partido Colorado, Foro Batllista). Re -elected incumbent. Hold for the Partido Colorado.


2000 Uruguayan municipal elections, Overview
Cerro Largo: Ambrosio Barreiro (Partido Nacional, Herrerismo). Hold for the Partido Nacional.


2000 Uruguayan municipal elections, Overview
Colonia: Carlos Moreira (Partido Nacional, Herrerismo). Re -elected incumbent. Hold for the Partido Nacional.


2000 Uruguayan municipal elections, Overview
Durazno: Carmelo Vidalín (Partido Nacional, Herrerismo). Hold for the Partido Nacional.


2000 Uruguayan municipal elections, Overview
Flores: Carlos Mazzullo (Partido Nacional, Alianza Nacional). Re -elected incumbent. Hold for the Partido Nacional.


2000 Uruguayan municipal elections, Overview
Florida: Andrés Arocena (Partido Nacional, Línea Nacional de Florida). Pickup for the Partido Nacional from the Partido Colorado.


2000 Uruguayan municipal elections, Overview
Lavalleja: Hermán Vergara (Partido Nacional, Herrerismo). Hold for the Partido Nacional.


2000 Uruguayan municipal elections, Overview
Maldonado: Enrique Antía (Partido Nacional, Independent). Hold for the Partido Nacional.


2000 Uruguayan municipal elections, Overview
Paysandú: Alvaro Lamas (Partido Nacional, Alianza Nacional). Hold for the Partido Nacional.


2000 Uruguayan municipal elections, Overview
Río Negro: Mario Carminatti (Partido Colorado, Lista 15). Hold for the Partido Colorado.


2000 Uruguayan municipal elections, Overview
Rivera: Tabaré Viera (Partido Colorado), Foro Batllista). Hold for the Partido Colorado.


2000 Uruguayan municipal elections, Overview
Rocha: Irineu Riet Correa (Partido Nacional, Alianza Nacional). Pickup for the Partido Nacional from the Partido Colorado.


2000 Uruguayan municipal elections, Overview
Salto: Eduardo Malaquina (Partido Colorado, Foro Batllista). Re -elected incumbent. Hold for the Partido Colorado.


2000 Uruguayan municipal elections, Overview
San José: Juan Antonio Chiruchi (Partido Nacional, Herrerismo). Hold for the Partido Nacional.


2000 Uruguayan municipal elections, Overview
Soriano: Gustavo Lapaz (Partido Nacional, Independent). Re -elected incumbent. Hold for the Partido Nacional.


2000 Uruguayan municipal elections, Overview
Tacuarembó: Eber da Rosa (Partido Nacional, Alianza Nacional). Re -elected incumbent. Hold for the Partido Nacional.


2000 Uruguayan municipal elections, Overview
Treinta y Tres: Wilson Elso Goñi (Partido Nacional, Movimiento Nacional de Rocha). Hold for the Partido Nacional.


2000 Uruguayan municipal elections, Overview
In the following map of Uruguay, departments coloured in blue represent the departments where the Partido Nacional won, the departments coloured in red represent the departments where the Partico Colorado won, and the departments coloured in dark red represent the departments where the Frente Amplio won.


2000 Utah Starzz season
The 2000 WNBA season was the 4th season for the Utah Starzz. The team finished the season with a winning record, but fell short for the WNBA Playoffs, falling two games back to the Phoenix Mercury.


2000 Utah Starzz season, Off-season
Debbie Black was selected by the Miami Sol, while Chantel Tremitiere was picked by the Indiana Fever in the 2000 WNBA Expansion Draft.


2000 Utah State Aggies football team
The 2000 Utah State Aggies football team represented Utah State University in the 2000 NCAA Division I-A football season as a member of the Big West Conference. The Aggies were led by first-year head coach Mick Dennehy. The Aggies played their home games at Romney Stadium in Logan, Utah. Utah State finished with a 5–6 record.


2000 Utah Utes football team
The 2000 season saw the Utes sliding back again. They went 4–7, the worst W-L record since Ron McBride's first season in 1990.


2000 Utah Utes football team, After the season, NFL draft
Two players went in the 2001 NFL Draft, including future pro bowler Steve Smith.


2000 Utah gubernatorial election
The 2000 Utah gubernatorial election took place on November 7, 2000. Incumbent Republican Mike Leavitt won reelection to a third term.


2000 Uzbek League
The 2000 Uzbek League season was the 9th edition of top level football in Uzbekistan since independence from the Soviet Union in 1992.


2000 Uzbek League, Overview
It was contested by 20 teams, and Do'stlik won the championship. Top scorer was Jafar Irismetov of Do'stlik with 45 goals, the most scored by one player in a single season.


2000 Uzbek presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Uzbekistan on 9 January 2000. The result was a victory for incumbent Islam Karimov, who won 95.7% of the vote. Turnout was reported to be 95.1%.


2000 Uzbek presidential election
Two candidates participated in the elections; Islam Karimov, the incumbent president and Abdulkhafiz Jalolov, the First Secretary of the largest party in the country, the Liberal Democratic Party (XDP). While Jalolov was nominated by the XDP, Karimov was surprisingly nominated by a new party, the Self-Sacrifice National Democratic Party (FMDP). Many outside observers stated that Karimov was actually in control of these two parties, and Jalolov was only allowed to run as a candidate to give an illusion of democratic election.


2000 Uzbek presidential election
The elections were not democratic. Jalolov, a former Marxist historian and ideologist from the defunct Communist Party of Uzbekistan, was little known to voters, compared to Karimov. The two candidates' programmes were described by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty as having only few differences. Jalolov was also reported to always praise and quote Karimov in his campaign speeches. At the end, after he voted, Jalolov stated that he had voted for Karimov "...for stability, peace, our nation's independence and the development of Uzbekistan". Many of the voters, when asked by the BBC, also said that they supported Karimov.


2000 Uzbek presidential election
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe stated that the vote "falls far short of OSCE commitments in terms of fulfilling obligations for democratic elections" and not giving voters a real choice. The elections were also criticized by Karimov's opponents, Muhammad Solih (a candidate in the 1991 presidential elections), and Abdurakhim Pulatov.


2000 VFL season
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2000 VFL season
The 2000 Victorian Football League season was the 119th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Sandringham Football Club, after defeating North Ballarat by 31 points in the Grand Final on 27 August.


2000 VFL season
The league underwent significant changes for the 2000 season, being merged with the Australian Football League reserves competition. Since this season, the VFL has served as a state-level senior competition in which reserves players and some reserves teams from the Victorian AFL clubs compete.


2000 VFL season, Merger with the AFL reserves
The Victorian State Football League had operated two open-age senior competitions during the 1990s: the Victorian Football League, which it took control of in 1995, and the AFL Reserves, which it had operated since 1992. The AFL Reserves competition was contested by the reserves teams of eleven Australian Football League clubs: those of the ten Victorian clubs and that of the Sydney Swans.


2000 VFL season, Merger with the AFL reserves
The VSFL had intended to merge the two into a single competition which would serve as an AFL reserves competition, a state-level senior competition and a development pathway from the 1995 season; however there was such significant opposition from the AFL clubs against abolishing their dedicated reserves competition that they had threatened to use their power to sack the AFL Commission over the changes. Consequently, the two competitions had run in parallel between 1995 and 1999.


2000 VFL season, Merger with the AFL reserves
Prior to the 1998 season, the AFL again announced plans to amalgamate the VFL and the AFL reserves into a single competition, giving the clubs two years to make arrangements before the combined competition was to begin from the 2000 season. Although most of the AFL clubs were still opposed to the changes, on this occasion they accepted them.


2000 VFL season, Merger with the AFL reserves
Under the new arrangement, AFL clubs were given two options: they could continue to operate their own reserves teams, fielding them in the VFL; or, they could enter a reserves affiliation with one or more existing VFL clubs. Under the affiliation structure, listed players who were not selected in the senior AFL team would be made available to play for their affiliated VFL club; the VFL club would then make up the balance of the team from its own playing list.


2000 VFL season, Merger with the AFL reserves, Affiliations and league membership changes
Under the new arrangement, four AFL clubs entered into affiliations with existing VFL clubs. These were:


2000 VFL season, Merger with the AFL reserves, Affiliations and league membership changes
A fifth affiliation was established with the creation of a new club, the Murray Kangaroos. The Murray Kangaroos was operated in partnership between the North Melbourne Football Club and the Ovens & Murray Football League, and was based at both Coburg City Oval in Melbourne and the Lavington Sports Ground in Albury. The Murray Kangaroos were affiliated with the Murray Bushrangers from the TAC Cup under-18s competition, which served to complete the VSFL's original vision that all twelve Victorian TAC Cup clubs would be affiliated with a VFL club.


2000 VFL season, Merger with the AFL reserves, Affiliations and league membership changes
This left six Victorian AFL clubs, all of which entered their reserves teams directly into the VFL. These were: Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Geelong, Richmond and St Kilda.


2000 VFL season, Merger with the AFL reserves, Other changes
After four years, the merger between Preston Bullants senior club and the Northern Knights TAC Cup club was terminated, and the two clubs returned to being separate entities. The senior club, which had competed as the Preston Knights since 1996, became known as the Northern Bullants, and it returned to the red and white colours that it had worn prior to 1996.


2000 VFL season, Merger with the AFL reserves, Other changes
With the increased size of the league, the finals were expanded from five clubs to eight clubs. The VFL adopted the same final eight system which was adopted by the AFL in the same season, replacing the McIntyre Final Five which had been in use since 1989.


2000 VFL season, Merger with the AFL reserves, Other changes
The Victorian State Football League was superseded by a newly established body, Football Victoria, which administered the league.


2000 VFL season, Merger with the AFL reserves, Summary
As a result of this large suite of changes, the size of the VFL grew from eleven to eighteen clubs, the largest it had been since 1987. The size of the competition during the 2000 season set a new record as the largest to contest the premiership in a single division in VFA/VFL history, a mark which stood until 2021. The clubs were:


2000 VMI Keydets football team
The 2000 VMI Keydets football team represented the Virginia Military Institute during the 2000 NCAA Division I-AA football season. It was the Keydets' 110th year of football and second season under head coach Cal McCombs.


2000 VMI Keydets football team
The Keydets endured a 2–9 campaign, which included wins over Charleston Southern and a 41–21 victory over The Citadel in the Military Classic of the South.


2000 Vaahteraliiga season
The 2000 Vaahteraliiga season was the 21st season of the highest level of American football in Finland. The regular season took place between May 20 and July 9, 2000 and the qualification round took place between July 22 and August 27, 2000. The two best teams of the round met at the championship game Vaahteramalja XXI, in which the Helsinki Roosters won the Seinäjoki Crocodiles.


2000 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix
The 2000 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix was the thirteenth round of the 2000 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 17 September 2000 at the Circuit de Valencia.


2000 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix
Until Fabio Quartararo at the 2020 Spanish Gp 20 years later it was the last premier class win for Yamaha as a satellite customer team .


2000 Valencian Community motorcycle Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race (500cc)
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round thirteen has concluded.


2000 Vana Ufan Dhuvas
2000 Vana Ufan Dhuvas (Eng: 2000th birthday) is a 2000 Maldivian horror drama film written and directed by Easa Shareef. Produced by Ahmed Wafau under Genius Movies, the film stars Reeko Moosa Manik, Jamsheedha Ahmed, Ali Seezan and Mariyam Shakeela in pivotal roles.


2000 Vana Ufan Dhuvas, Synopsis
Sudha (Jamsheedha Ahmed), a peculiar woman moves into a live-in relationship with Vishan (Reeko Moosa Manik) who is already married to a light-hearted woman, Shakeela Mariyam Shakeela. Sudha and Vishan continues their affair while Shakeela, who is now pregnant to a child of Vishan, helplessly watches them romance. Meanwhile Sudha's identical twin, Shiuna is involved in a romantic relationship with Vishan's best friend, Latheef (Ali Seezan). In guilt, Shiuna explains to Latheef that they are in fact not twins but lookalikes, and she is involved in their game because Sudha begged her to act as her twin-sister. Latheef suspects Sudha is a fraud and is secretly working to desperately achieve something for her benefit. The following day, Latheef is drowned in the sea.


2000 Vanderbilt Commodores football team
The 2000 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University in the 2000 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team was led by head coach Woody Widenhofer.


2000 Vaughan municipal election
The City of Vaughan 2000 Municipal Election took place on 13 November 2000. One mayor, two regional councillors and five local councillors were elected for the city of Vaughan, Ontario, Canada. In addition, local school trustees were elected to the York Region District School Board, York Catholic District School Board, Conseil scolaire de district du Centre-Sud-Ouest and Conseil scolaire de district catholique Centre-Sud. These elections were held in conjunction with all other municipalities across Ontario. (see 2000 Ontario municipal elections).


2000 Vaughan municipal election
Following the death of Mayor Lorna Jackson on April 5, 2002, Michael Di Biase was appointed by Vaughan council as interim mayor by virtue of his position as one of two regional councillors representing Vaughan. Gino Rosati, a Vaughan local councillor, was subsequently appointed by Vaughan Council to fill Di Biase’s position as regional councillor and a by-election was held on June 14, 2002 to fill Rosati’s local councillor’s position which was won by Linda Jackson.


2000 Vaughan municipal election, Candidates, Regional Council
Because Michael Di Biase received the highest vote count among the candidates for Regional Councillor, he was styled as the acting Mayor in cases where the Mayor is unavailable. However commonly confused, this is a different role than being the Deputy Mayor


2000 Veikkausliiga, Overview
It was contested by 12 teams, and Haka Valkeakoski won the championship.


2000 Veikkausliiga, Results
Each team plays three times against every other team, either twice at home and once away or once at home and twice away, for a total of 33 matches played each.


2000 Venetian regional election
The Venetian regional election of 2000 took place on 16 April 2000.


2000 Venetian regional election
Giancarlo Galan (Forza Italia, House of Freedoms) was re-elected for the third time President of the Region by a landslide over the centre-left candidate Massimo Cacciari (The Democrats).


2000 Venetian regional election
Forza Italia, this time in alliance also with the Northern League, had its best result ever and was by far the largest party in the election, receiving 30.3% of the regional vote.


2000 Venetian regional election, Aftermath
After the election, Giancarlo Galan formed his second government, while Enrico Cavaliere (Liga Veneta) was elected President of the Regional Council. Forza Italia had the lion share in the government, including the posts of President, Vice President and Minister of Health.


2000 Venezuelan general election
General elections were held in Venezuela on 30 July 2000, the first under the country's newly adopted 1999 constitution. Incumbent President Hugo Chávez ran for election for a full 6-year term under the new Constitution. He was challenged by another leftist, a former ally of his, Zulia Governor Francisco Arias Cárdenas. Chávez won the election with almost 60% of the popular vote, increasing his vote share over the previous elections, and managing to carry a larger number of states. Arias Cárdenas only managed to narrowly carry his home state of Zulia.


2000 Venezuelan general election, Electoral system
Representatives in the National Assembly were elected under a mixed member proportional representation, with 60% elected in single seat districts and the remainder by closed party lists.


2000 Venezuelan regional elections
The Venezuelan regional elections, 2000 took place on 30 July 2000, alongside the 2000 Venezuelan parliamentary election and 2000 Venezuelan presidential election. The regional elections were for Venezuelan state governorships and mayorships. The Fifth Republic Movement (supported by its Patriotic Pole partners) took 14 of the 23 governorships, while COPEI took 2 and joint Democratic Action-COPEI candidates took another 2. The new First Justice won two mayoral races for Chacao and Baruta.


2000 Venezuelan trade union leadership referendum
A referendum on trade union leadership was held in Venezuela on 3 December 2000. Voters were asked: