Object Details
- Description
- The presidential contest between George W. Bush and Al Gore came down to Florida in November 2000. A confusing ballot design and incomplete punch marks hampered the recount effort, which ground into late November until halted by the Supreme Court.
- In Broward County, teams of counters examined each ballot, forwarding cards in need of interpretation to Judge Robert A. Rosenberg. A famous photograph shows Rosenberg peering through a magnifying glass at a ballot and the “chads” (paper fragments) dangling from incomplete punch marks. This is one of two magnifying glasses that Rosenberg used and kept as souvenirs of the recount, together with a bag of “authentic chads.”
- Gift of Robert A. Rosenberg, 2001–2004
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Robert R. Rosenberg
- 2000
- ID Number
- 2004.0304.01
- accession number
- 2004.0304
- catalog number
- 2004.0304.01
- Object Name
- chad, ballot
- Physical Description
- beige (overall color)
- paper (overall material)
- plastic (overall material)
- white (overall color)
- black (overall color)
- Measurements
- overall: 2 in x 3 7/8 in; 5.08 cm x 9.8425 cm
- place made
- United States: Florida
- referenced
- United States: Florida
- See more items in
- Political History: Political History, General History Collection
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- Souvenir Nation
- National Museum of American History
- used
- Voting
- Record ID
- nmah_1280863
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-e3bb-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
