It's to the best of our knowledge from PRX.

I'm Anne Strain Champs.

Gerrymandering, voter suppression, missing ballots.

When did American elections get so contested?

It came to the four in that ridiculous, god-awful 2000 election.

Historian Carol Anderson.

She's the author of one person, no vote.

I move that this board conduct a manual recount of all the ballots for the presidential election for the year 2000.

Everybody remembers that election. The punch hole is called a chat.

That was the election of the hanging chat.

The pregnant Chad.

This is the election where George W. Bush squeaked it out in Florida over Al Gore.

Yes.

May God bless our new president.

And it's still hotly contested. Let's face it, because there was just so much that went wrong in Florida.

I guess I better go write in an honorable speech.

But we spend so much time on Florida, we miss what happened in Missouri. In Missouri, in St. Louis, Missouri, the St. Louis Board of Elections illegally purged nearly

50,000 voters off of the rolls shortly before the election and didn't tell them.

And so these voters show up to vote and find out their names

aren't on the rolls. They're looking going, wait, what, what? And the poll workers are like,

but you're not here. I can't let you vote. You're not here. And they're trying to call down

to the board of elections. Nobody's answering the phone. The lines are jammed. I mean, it's just,

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