Editorial: Iowa as the new Florida: An app embarrassment but hey, no hanging chads
by The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune
Feb 04, 2020
3 minutes
As Monday's Democratic caucuses in Iowa drifted into Tuesday's long search for a winner, the unfolding debacle evoked miserable memories:
_Ah yes, the 2000 presidential election, with Florida officials looking as flummoxed as Democratic Party officials did Monday night in Des Moines. The quest to identify a Florida victor - eventually Republican George W. Bush, by 537 voters - added the phrase "hanging chads" to the political lexicon: Remember those bitsy
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