These people have more experience, more voting know-how. They don't waste votes on Buchanan or Nader. The whole issue that has been raised in their name didn't have an effect on the Supreme Court of this country. It didn't have an effect on the courts of the state of Florida. One place where eyes are already on the next voting opportunity is Century Village.
Century Village is, in many ways, a microcosm of what happened in the rest of Palm Beach County.
The community, a collection of squat apartment buildings painted white with aqua trim and nestled in a lake-dotted campus, has its own polling stations and was able to track its own voting. As could be expected, Al Gore won Century Village overwhelmingly, taking 75 percent of the vote. But just over 10 percent of the votes there were disqualified, mostly because they were double-punched. Along with 45 improbable votes for Buchanan, Century Village leaders say that a total of 508 votes in the community were cast in error - a sum that would have put Gore only 20 votes away from the winner's column. For next time, we have to get rid of Jeb Bush, work on the House of Representatives.