How the media caused the 2000 Florida recount

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On November 7, 2000, during the final hour and a half of voting in Florida’s most conservative region, the Panhandle, 13 national television journalists, representing all six major outlets, asserted a total of 39 times that the polls in that region closed an hour earlier than they really did.

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