A lot of people still think that Kerry won that 2004 election. There was the infamous hanging chad controversy in Florida where some dude named Jeb ran things. But a lot of people forget about what happened in Ohio.
"Certainly the election had its share of irregularities, especially in Ohio, the battleground state each side had to win. In the days after the election, newspapers nationwide carried accounts of how voters in and around Columbus, the state capital, had to stand in line for hours before casting ballots. It turns out the Franklin County Board of Elections had reduced the number of voting machines in urban precincts—which held more African American voters and were likely to favor John Kerry—and increased the number of machines in white suburban precincts, which tended to favor the president. As a result, as many as 15,000 voters in Franklin County left without casting ballots, the
Washington Post estimated—a significant amount in an election that Bush won by only 118,775 votes (out of 5.6 million cast). But except for one-day stories in the
Washington Post and
New York Times, these revelations triggered no broader investigations, or if they did, the results went unpublished."
http://www.motherjones.com/media/2005/11/recounting-ohio
