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The 2000 presidential election was an unprecedented event in our nation’s history that made evident many problems in the electoral processes of the United States. Glaring flaws in voting apparatuses, legal voting standards, and the election day media coverage were direct causes of the month long battle for the presidency. Also, the controversy reaffirmed the legitimacy of the Electoral College as the method to elect the president. The possibility of a national recount would have been a logistical nightmare, as seen in Florida, and the Electoral College prevented this from happening. The most noticeable problem that arose from the 2000 presidential election was the obvious need for the improvement of the methods of casting the actual votes. The need for improved voting machines and less confusing ballots has been confirmed by the problems that occurred across the country regarding the substantial number of votes that were declared illegitimate by “overvotes” and undervotes (overvotes were ballots with marks for two candidates, undervotes were ballots with hanging or swinging chads) . Figures show that 175,100 votes in the deciding state of Florida alone were discarded, and in a state where the election was decided by mere