Why so long?

[aarochordidae]

I find this whole election thing confusing. I live in Canada and we just had our federal election this monday and the next day we found out the liberals won (majority) so Jean Chretien is still prime minister,. No big deal. Case closed. I still don't understand why the American election is taking so long., Our teacher tried to explain it but the class was just confused because we never heard of what "butterfly ballots" were and other terms. Can someone tell me what is going on?

 

[StageLeft]

headline on cnn

 

[Pastore]

Al Gore is the entire problem, if he would just admit his defeat, this thing would be over tomorrow, but NOOOOOOO, he has to drag it on and ruin his image in the eyes of the people... When he loses this years election, how is he going to expect anyone to vote for him in 4 years?

 

[Stallion]

He wont need to because he will be selling PCs on the home shopping network by June.

 

[Pastore]

LOL @ Stallion!

 

[cxim]

Most of the terms like butter fly ballots don't have a bearing on the election... they are confusing side issues.

Canada has a population about 2 X that of Florida. Less votes to count.

The US election was very close. It was very close in Florida. The loser has been protesting & contesting the results. The protests are what is taking the time.

The loser Al Gore, also known as Algoron & "count 'em again Al", wanted some districts ballots recounted by hand. In 2 districts together, there were more than a million ballots that were hand counted.

Takes time to count that high...