THE PATH TO FLORIDA | Vanity Fair | October 2004

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Hanging chads, wild-goose chases, and the Brooks Brothers riot: the 2000 Florida recount was unlike anything in modern American history. It couldn't possibly happen again—right? VFArchive

As the Florida recount ate away at George W. Bush's margin of victory , the machinery of political power sprang to life. In Washington, stunned U.S.

Supreme Court clerks watched justice become partisan, while in Florida, tens of thousands of citizens—thousands of them African-American—found themselves disenfranchised by misleading, faulty, and uncounted ballots, or inexplicably purged from the rolls.

 

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