As Florida's electoral votes became too close to call, controversy ensued over hanging chads, dimpled chads and butterfly bullets. Five hundred thirty-seven votes. That's all that separated Democrat Al Gore and his Republican challenger George W. Bush when, on November 26, 2000, three weeks after Election Day, the state of Florida declared Bush the winner of its 25 electoral votes in the race for U.S. president.

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2000 presidential election, a&e television networks, llc, electoral college, gore v bush, hanging chads, dimpled chads and butterfly bullets, the nation's 43rd president were simply too close to call

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