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Online Reference Shelf--Government--Election Information--Election 2000

About This Page:  This page was first created on December 10, 2000, after a clutter of Quick Links regarding news of the election practically overtook Chabot Library's Election Information page.  Given this historical event, and the knowledge that books are not yet available and articles are scattered on this subject, we opted to create this Web Pathfinder to pages related to the Election.  We will do our best to provide links to web pages on this topic.  Please do not see this as the only source.  You can definitely find many articles on this subject in our Periodicals databases.   Click here on how to find articles on this subject.  Some of the documents linked below (such as Court Opinions) can only be retrieved through a reader of Page Document Files (.pdf) such as Adobe Acrobat.  Adobe Acrobat is NOW available on most of our reference computers.  This page will be in construction for awhile so please have your patience.  We at Chabot Library are open to any comments or suggestions for improvement.  To contact us, please email Norman Buchwald, Information Literacy and Technology Librarian,  at nbuchwald@clpccd.cc.ca.us

June Update: "Latest Information" section will continue to be "News Stories from December," but with two news stories added regarding the Miami Herald's recount results and Florida's sweeping passage of election reform.  The "Court Cases" section has been modified to mainly cover the main U.S. Supreme Court and Florida Supreme Court Cases.  Go to FindLaw's directoriesor CNN's Indepth: Reviewing the Vote for information on any of the other many court cases (including ones not in Florida).  Remaining parts of the Presidential Contest and Election 2000 (General) should be developed this Fall.  Keep your patience as we are also still working on growing our Online Reference Shelf and Library Research Guides.  Any suggestions for web sites, please contact Norman Buchwald at nbuchwald@clpccd.cc.ca.us

News Stories From December and some Updated Stories Since For up to date information regarding recounts done by media and/or nonprofit organizations, or other news stories about the Bush Administration, or regarding the past election or election reform,  go to Reuter's Politics News, AP's Politics and Elections News, browse CNN or Washington Post, or take a look at Florida Newspapers.

Florida Lawmakers Approve Election System Overhaul

       http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47275-2001May5.html
 

Bush Still Wins Florida in Newspaper Recount

        http://www.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/04/04/florida.recount.01/index.html
Miami Herald's results if its painstaking recount of all ballots in Florida
 

Results on Florida Vote for President in December (at CNN.com's All Politics web site)

        http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2000/results/FL/frameset.exclude.html
Includes results by county in Florida.  For up to date news on the presidential election in Florida go to Reuters' Politics News, and AP's Politics and Elections News
 

Gore Would've Gained More Votes in Lake County

        http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/lake/orl-recount-12192000-story.story
 

Biographies of Bush Cabinet Members

         http://www.cnn.com/interactive/allpolitics/0012/bush.cabinet/frameset.exclude.html
 

Electoral College Results--December 18, 2000

        http://www.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/12/18/electoral.feature/index.html
 

Gore's Concession Speech

        http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2000/transcripts/121300/t651213.html
 

Bush's Victory Speech

        http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2000/transcripts/121300/bush.html
 

United States Supreme Court Opinion, Bush V. Gore December 12, 2000

         http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/election2000/uscdecision1212.pdf
 

Florida House Votes to Approve Bush Electors

        http://www.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/12/12/election.wrap/index.html

Transcipt to U.S. Supreme Court OralArguments, BUSH V. GORE, December 11, 2000

        http://www.cnn.com/LAW/trials.and.cases/case.files/0011/reviewing.the.vote/t031211.html

Transcript to U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments, BUSH V. PALM BEACH COUNTY CANVASSING BOARD, December 1, 2000

        http://www.cnn.com/LAW/trials.and.cases/case.files/0011/reviewing.the.vote/t031211.html
  Court Opinion:  http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/election2000/usc00-836final.pdf
       Florida Supreme Court Response:   http://a4.g.akamaitech.net/7/4/622/000/abcnews.go.com/media/politics/sc00-2346-remand.pdf
For transcript on the U.S. Supreme Court opinion, click here.  Then select, U.S. Supreme Court opinion.  You need Adobe Acrobat to view the file.  If you're at the Library, we have the decision available in paper form, at the reference desk.  For pdf files on all court cases related to the presidential election dispute, click here
 

Transcript to Florida Supreme Court Opinion, Gore V. Harris, December 7, 2000

  http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/election2000/fscgoreharrisop1208.pdf
 

Associated Press' Election News

        http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/pl/el/?u

Reuters' Politics News

        http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/pl/nm/?u
 

Los Angeles Times' Politics and Campaign Wires

        Politics Wire:  http://www.latimes.com/wires/wpolitics/
        Campaign Wire:  http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/elect2000/pres/wire2/
 

CNN's All Politics

        http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/
 

Washington Post's On Politics

        http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/

Online Newshour: Election 2000

        http://www.pbs.org/newshour/election2000/index.php3
Contains overview of entire election.  The election dispute topics are available under all its categories.  So click one on the left and when the new page comes up scroll down until you find a desired news story, analysis, speech, or interview.  Stories, interviews, speeches, etc. go back to 1999
 

Washington Post's Series of the Election Deadlock

        http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54719-2001Jan27.html
Scroll down and on the right side you will see links to the eight part story the Washington Post ran in January, 2001 looking back in detail on the Election Dispute.  Also contains an interview with President George W. Bush
 

Other Washington Post Stories

        http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3698-2001May31.html
Scroll down and on the right side you will see many updated links to stories devoted to the Election 2000 deadlock including stories on Florida's efforts toward election reform
 

CNN In-Depth's Reviewing the Vote

        http://www.cnn.com/LAW/trials.and.cases/case.files/0011/reviewing.the.vote/
 

Election 2000: Constitutional Crisis or Democracy at Work?

        http://www.americanpresident.org/Crisis_or_Democracy.htm
 

CNN Election 2000's Election Timeline

  http://www.cnn.com/interactive/allpolitics/0011/election.timeline/navigation.html#7
 

Recount Chronology

        http://www.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/12/13/got.here/index.html
 

Election Moments (Photo Essay from Time Magazine)

        http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/electiontimeline/

Directories  |  U.S. Supreme Court  |   Florida Supreme Court  | Significant Laws and Court Cases
 

Directories
 

FindLaw's Legal News: Election 2000, the Florida Deadlock

        http://news.findlaw.com/legalnews/us/election/election2000.html

U.S. Supreme Court
 

Bush V. Gore

        http://news.findlaw.com/legalnews/us/election/election2000.html#00-949
This is the court case that Bush appealed in response to the Florida Supreme Court Case, Gore V. Harris, that ruled in favor of Gore's contest of the certified election in the state of Florida, and ordered a manual recount of "undervotes" in all counties in the state of Florida.  The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the recounts to stop hours later after they began, pending review of this case
You need Adobe Acrobat to view most of these documents

The Opinion
http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/election2000/uscdecision1212.pdf

The Oral Arguments
http://www.cnn.com/LAW/trials.and.cases/case.files/0011/reviewing.the.vote/t031211.html

U.S. Supreme Court's Declaration of a Stay
 http://a388.g.akamai.net/f/388/21/1d/www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2000/resources/uscbushstay.1209.pdf
(Placing Recounts on Hold that was decided from the Florida Supreme Court case, Gore V. Harris)

Briefs Submitted Before the U.S. Supreme Court
Bush Brief:     
http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/election2000/uscbushbrf1210.pdf
Gore Brief:
http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/election2000/uscgorebrief1210.pdf
 

Bush V. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board

http://news.findlaw.com/legalnews/us/election/election2000.html#ussc
This is the court case that Bush appealed to the Florida Supreme Court Case,   that ruled in favor of Gore's protest of Secretary of State, Katharine Harris's observance of the initial deadline date of November 14 for ballots accepted for the November 18 certification of Florida's votes (all ballots except for absentee overseas ballots)
You need Adobe Acrobat to view most of these documents

The Opinion
  http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/election2000/usc00-836final.pdf

Florida Supreme Court Response to The Opinion
 http://a4.g.akamaitech.net/7/4/622/000/abcnews.go.com/media/politics/sc00-2346-remand.pdf

The Oral Arguments
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2000/transcripts/s101201.html

Briefs Submitted Before the U.S. Supreme Court
Bush Brief:
 http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/election2000/uscbushbrief1128.pdf
Gore Brief:
 http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/election2000/uscgorebrief1128.pdf
Palm Beach Canvassing Board Brief:
 http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/election2000/uscpbccbbrf1128.pdf
 

Florida Supreme Court
 

Gore v. Harris

        http://news.findlaw.com/legalnews/us/election/election2000.html#cv00-2808
This is the court case that Gore appealed in response to the Circuit Court Case (listed below) also of the same name.  This court case is Gore's contest of the certified election results in the state of Florida.  Here, Gore's attorneys argued that particular ballots from particular counties should be recounted.  The Florida Supreme Court declared that all "undervotes" (those that the machine did not read a presidential choice) from all Florida's counties will be recounted.  The U.S. Supreme Court halted the recount only hours after it began to take place.  The U.S. Supreme Court's Consideration of this case is Bush V. Gore

The Opinion
 http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/election2000/fscgoreharrisop1208.pdf

Briefs Submitted Before the Florida Supreme Court
Gore Brief:
 http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/election2000/fscgorebrf1206.pdf
Bush Brief:
 http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/election2000/fscbushamdbrf1206.pdf

Bush V. Gore (U.S. Supreme Court's Response)
http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/onlineref/election2000#supreme

Palm Beach County Canvassing Board V. Harris

        http://news.findlaw.com/legalnews/us/election/election2000b.html#flsc

The Opinion
 http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/election2000/fsc1121decision.pdf

Opinion After Remand from U.S. Supreme Court
http://a4.g.akamaitech.net/7/4/622/000/abcnews.go.com/media/politics/sc00-2346-remand.pdf

Briefs Submitted Before the Florida Supreme Court

Significant Laws and Court Cases
 

Texas Statute on Processing Electronic Voting System Results

        http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/election2000/txchadlaw.html

Legislative Actions

News Stories on Florida Legislature

Florida House Votes to Approve Bush Electors
        http://www.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/12/12/election.wrap/index.html

Biography/Who's Who
While the links below will lead you to BRIEF biographies about these historical figures, as of right now, you would get more information if you search articles on them.  Some biographical information below (such as online interviews) can be additional "goodies" to articles you find in our subscription databases.

Search in our databases:  Ebsco Host, Infotrac California Newspapers, Encyclopedia Britannica, and SIRS Knowledge Source.  When searching for a person as subject, enter the last name and then the first name.  As there will be a lot of articles that will probably not focus on biographical background, enter a search adding the word "biography" to your figure.  Your search would appear like this:  harris katherine AND biography.  You may have to be flexible with your searches.  If you are searching for information about these figures in relation to the election, add the word, election: harris katherine AND election.

Using search engines on the World Wide Web will  as of right now lead you to many inaccurate and very biased web sites, so I strongly recommend searching for articles for more in-depth information.  The likeliness of finding a book in our collection on any of the figures listed below is currently slim, at best.  We may have a few in our Encyclopedias or other biographical resources we have in our reference collection

Directories  |  Albert Gore  |  George W. Bush  |  Katherine Harris  |  Jeb Bush  |  Bob Butterworth
Joseph Lieberman  |  Richard Cheney  |  Ralph Nader  |  Pat Buchanan  |  Florida Supreme Court
United States Supreme Court  |  Other Court Judges  |  Gore's Attorneys  |  Bush's Attorneys
Gore's Spokesmen  |  Bush's Spokesmen  |  Florida Legislature (Key Players)
 

Directories

Online Reference Shelf--Biographical Resources

        http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/onlineref/Biography.html

Albert Gore
Presidential Candidate (Democrat), was Vice President of the United States

Who2 Profile: Al Gore

        http://www.who2.com/algore.html
 

Becoming Al Gore

  http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/democracy/gore/stories/gore/index.html
 

From the Biography Channel

        http://www.biography.com/perl/frame_this.cgi?page=http://search.biography.com/
        print_record.pl%3Fid%3D15250
 

An Interview with Al Gore (Online Newshour)

        http://www.pbs.org/newshour/election2000/candidates/gore_index.html

George W. Bush
Presidential Candidate (Republican), now 43rd President of the United States

Who2 Profile: George W. Bush

        http://www.who2.com/georgewbush.html
 

Living the Bush Legacy

        http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/democracy/bush/stories/bush/index.html
 

From the Biography Channel

        http://www.biography.com/perl/frame_this.cgi?page=http://search.biography.com/
        print_record.pl%3Fid%3D23367
 

An Interview with George Bush (Online Newshour)

        http://www.pbs.org/newshour/election2000/candidates/bush_index.html

Katherine Harris
Secretary of State, Florida, and Co-Chair of Bush Campaign in Florida

From Information Please

        http://www.infoplease.com/spot/katherineharris1.html
 

From National Association of Secretary of States

        http://www.nass.org/states/flbio.htm
 

From Secretary of State of Florida's Web Site

        http://www.dos.state.fl.us/oss/background.html

Jeb Bush
Governor of Florida, George W. Bush's brother

From National Governors' Association

       http://www.nga.org/governors/1,1169,C_GOVERNOR_INFO^D_124,00.html

Bob Butterworth
Attorney General, Florida and Gore Elector

From Florida Attorney General's Home Page

        http://web.archive.org/web/20001130063826/http://legal.firn.edu/agoffice/ag_bio.html

Joseph Lieberman
Vice Presidential Candidate (Democrat) and U.S. Senator from Connecticut

From the Biography Channel

         http://search.biography.com/print_record.pl?id=23590

Richard Cheney
Vice Presidential Candidate (Republican); was Secretary of Defense in Bush Sr. Administration; Vice President of the United States

From the Biography Channel

  http://search.biography.com/print_record.pl?id=23589

Florida Supreme Court Justices

From the Supreme Court of Florida Web Site

        http://www.flcourts.org/pubinfo/sct.html#justices

United States Supreme Court Justices

Justices of the Supreme Court

        http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/justices/fullcourt.html
Click on the name of the justice to get biographical data.  On top of the data, there is a link to Supreme Court opinions written by that justice Biographical data is excellent and you get direct information to their beliefs through their writings for particular opinions
 

Virtual Supreme Court

    http://www.law.upenn.edu/fac/bwoodhou/vsc/
A classroom project with profiles written by law students.   Click on the name of each justice and then read the profiles.  Quality of profiles are pretty good and each profile is followed by bibliographical references

Other Judges/Elected Officials

Theresa LePore (Supervisor of Elections for Palm Beach County)

        http://www.pbcelections.org/Supervisor.htm
 

Carol Roberts (Palm Beach County Canvassing Board Member)

        http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/time/2000/11/27/recounter.html

Gore's Attorneys

Gore Team

        http://www.cnn.com/LAW/scotus/election.justices/gore.names.html
 

David Boies (Profile from CNN)

        http://www.cnn.com/2000/LAW/11/14/boies.profile.reut/
 

David Boies (Interview on Wired Magazine)

        http://www.wirednews.com/wired/archive/8.10/boies.html

Bush's Attorneys

Bush Team

        http://www.cnn.com/LAW/scotus/election.justices/bush.names.html
 

Theodore Olsen

       http://www.cnn.com/LAW/scotus/election.justices/olsen.html

Gore's Spokesmen

Warren Christopher (Former Secretary of State)

        http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/bio/christopher_bio.html

Bush's Spokesmen

James Baker (Former Secretary of State)

        http://search.biography.com/print_record.pl?id=12498

Florida Legislature (Key Players)

Bios of Florida Legislative Leaders

  http://quest.cjonline.com/stories/121200/gen_1212007363.shtml

Election Laws in the State of Florida

  http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Index&Title_Request=IX#TitleIX
From the Florida's 2000 Statutes, Title IX explains the legal procedures for elections.  Most of the laws related to questions regarding the current presidential election will be found in Chapters 102, 103, and 104 (but a few may be in the other chapters)
 

Texas Statute on Processing Electronic Voting System Results

        http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/election2000/txchadlaw.html
 

California Election Codes

        http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/calawquery?codesection=elec&codebody=&hits=20

The Electoral College

Electoral College 2000

        http://www.nara.gov/fedreg/elctcoll/2000res.html
 

Frequently Asked Questions About the Electoral College

        http://www.nara.gov/fedreg/elctcoll/faq.html
 

Electoral College Home Page

        http://www.nara.gov/fedreg/elctcoll/index.html
 

The CQ Researcher's Report on the Electoral College

        http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/onpolitics/elections/cq_issues120800.htm
Available as a special report from the Washington Post.  You can also get the print version at the Reference Desk, the December 8, 2000 Issue
 

OCLC Net First Hot Topics: The Electoral College

        http://www.oclc.org/oclc/new/hottopics/001113.htm
An excellent directory to quality web sites on the topic of the Electoral College
 

Political Junkie's Columns on the Electoral College

        http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/junkie/archive.htm
  November 20, 2000
  September 15, 2000

Bush/Cheney Campaign Web Sites From Politics 1

        http://www.politics1.com/bush.htm
Scroll down the page to get to the list of sites
 

Gore/Lieberman Campaign Web Sites From Politics 1

        http://www.politics1.com/gore.htm
Scroll down the page to get to the list of sites

Florida Lawmakers Approve Election System Overhaul

        http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47275-2001May5.html

Count Our Votes

        http://www.CountOurVotes.com/
From the Florida Democratic Party, a web site to urge citizens to write to Florida legislators
 

Nader Trader

        http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.nadertrader.org/+%22Nader+Trader%22&hl=en
Current version of web page: http://www.nadertrader.org
News Stories about Vote Trading web sites:  http://www.nadertrader.org/media/media.html
This was the original web site developed for those who wished to vote for Nader, wanting him to win 5% of the vote for federal matching funding in 2004, but lived in a close call state where either Bush or Gore would win.  This web site suggested voters find someone who lives in a definite Bush or Gore state on the Internet where the voter in that state would vote for Nader while the Nader voter votes for Gore.  Many other Nader trading web sites came into existence, some including Inter-Relay Chat forums or lists of emails for contact.  States such as California shut down some of the sites on the ground that they were breaking that state's election laws
 

Vote With America

        http://www.votewithamerica.com/
A campaign site to encourage anyone to contact any elector from any state (has focus to ask Bush electors to vote for Gore-- to see if three electors may change their loyalty and respect the popular vote).  From a political organization called Citizens for True Democracy, a left leaning organization
 

Election 2000: Things to Do

    http://homeschool.crecon.com/election2000.html
An organization on home schooling encourages religious conservatives to be active and informed during the time of the presidential dispute

Presidential Debate #1, University of Massachusettes, October 3, 2000

        http://www.debates.org/pages/trans2000a.html
 

Presdential Debate #2, Wake Forest University, NC, October 11, 2000

        http://www.debates.org/pages/trans2000b.html
 

Presidential Debate #3, Washington University, Missouri, October 17,2000

        http://www.debates.org/pages/trans2000c.html
 

Vice-Presidential Debate, Danville, Kentucky Centre, October 5, 2000

        http://www.debates.org/pages/trans2000d.html

Bush/Gore Campaigns Timeline (Including Before Election Day)
This category will likely be developed soon.

Close Presidential Races in the Past
Whether by the popular vote or by the vote of the electoral college

Rutheford B. Hayes/Samuel Tilden  |  Benjamin Harrison/Grover Clevelend
John Quincy Adams/Andrew Jackson  |  Thomas Jefferson/Aaron Burr
John F. Kennedy/Richard Nixon  |  Jimmy Carter/Gerald Ford
Books and Web Sites on Presidential Elections
 
 

Rutheford B. Hayes/ Samuel Tilden (1876)
  Electoral Map: http://www.presidentelect.org/e1876.html

Election outcome unknown and dragging on for weeks?  Separation between the popular vote and the electoral vote? The electoral outcome determined by only one vote?  The media pronouncing one winner and then proclaiming another winner before all the election returns are in?  The possibility of faithless electors?  States having close outcomes for president?  Florida being a state that determines the president?  The Florida Supreme Court  determining the winner?  Florida sending two slates of electors?  U.S. Supreme Court justices helping to determine the winner?  Strange ballots in Florida?  Disenfranchisement of Black voters?  No, this isn't the election of 2000.  It's the election of 1876!  Find out why many pundits are comparing the 2000 election with this other election that wasn't decided for months and not until the day before the Inauguration!

Hayes vs. Tilden: The Election Controversy of 1876-1877

        http://elections.harpweek.com/9Controversy/overview-controversy-1.html
 

Tilden-Hayes Election of 1876

        http://www.discovery.com/guides/history/historybuff/library/reftilden.html
 

The Campaign and Election of 1876        http://www.americanpresident.org/KoTrain/Courses/RBH/RBH_Campaigns_and_Elections.htm

 

Election of 1876

        http://library.thinkquest.org/12587/contents/timeline/1870/1876.html
 

Rutheford Birchard Hayes

        http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/rbhayes.html
 

Article on Rutherford B. Hayes

        http://www.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/12/11/recount.hayes.ap/index.html
 

Tilden, Samuel Jones

        http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0848739.html

Benjamin Harrison/Grover Cleveland (1888)
 Electoral Map: http://www.presidentelect.org/e1888.html
Before Election 2000, the 1888 election was the last one where a presidential candidate won the electoral college while losing the popular vote.  Grover Cleveland, who was the incumbent, lost to Benjamin Harrison (233 to 168 electoral votes) while winning by more than 100,000 popular votes.  Grover Cleveland, however, ran again in 1892 against Harrison and regained the Presidency

Campaign and Election of 1888       http://www.americanpresident.org/KoTrain/Courses/BH/BH_Campaigns_and_Elections.htm

 

Grover Cleveland

        http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/7/0,5716,24747+1+24360,00.html
 

Benjamin Harrison

        http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/3/0,5716,40173,00.html#Article

John Quincy Adams/Andrew Jackson (1824)
        Electoral Map: http://www.presidentelect.org/e1824.html
John Quincy Adams is the only other president who is also a son of a president.  Like George W. Bush, he also lost the popular vote, but in Adams' case he also lost the electoral vote!  Andrew Jackson actually won both.  However, with four candidates running in this election, none of the four candidates actually obtained a majority of all electoral votes, combined.  So the choice for President went to the U.S. House of Representatives, the majority picking John Quincy Adams.  However, Andrew Jackson ran again in 1828 and unseated John Quincy Adams with both a decisive popular and electoral majority

Campaign and Elections of 1824 and 1828

 http://www.americanpresident.org/KoTrain/Courses/JQA/JQA_Campaigns_and_Elections.htm
 

Tally of the 1824 Electoral College Vote

http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/electoral_college_tally_1824/electoral_college_tally_1824.html

Thomas Jefferson/Aaron Burr (1800)
     Electoral Map: http://www.presidentelect.org/e1800.html
The United States began the Nineteenth Century with a Presidential election dilemma that later required a Constitutional Amendment.  With the original version of the Constitution, the person who earned the most electoral votes became President while the person who came in second became Vice President.  However, that original plan changed with the election of 1800 where both Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr received the same number of electoral votes (73).  To make things further complicated, the lame-duck House were Federalists who had to decide the election between two members of the opposition party: The Democratic-Republicans.  The House voted 36 times before reaching the required majority of ten states voting in favor

Campaigns and Elections of Thomas Jefferson

http://www.americanpresident.org/KoTrain/Courses/TJ/TJ_Campaigns_and_Elections.htm
 

Election of 1800

        http://library.thinkquest.org/12587/contents/timeline/1800/1800.html
 

Election of 1800 (Atlantic Monthly)

        http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/policamp/parton.htm

John F. Kennedy/Richard Nixon
     Electoral Map: http://www.presidentelect.org/e1960.html

Campaign and Election of 1960

 http://www.americanpresident.org/KoTrain/Courses/JFK/JFK_Campaigns_and_Elections.htm

Jimmy Carter/Gerald Ford
     Electoral Map: http://www.presidentelect.org/e1976.html

Campaign and Election of 1976

  http://www.americanpresident.org/KoTrain/Courses/GF/GF_Campaigns_and_Elections.htm

Books and Web Sites on Presidential Elections
For reference books, go to the reference shelves and search by Call Number at Chabot Library.  If you have any questions, ask a Librarian (left side of the reference/circulation desk when you enter the main room of the Library)
 

A Statistical History of the American Presidential Elections

        REFERENCE  Call Number: JK197.P4
 

Encyclopedia of the American Presidency

        REFERENCE  Call Number: JK511 .E53 1994 (4 volumes)
 

Books on Presidential Elections to Check Out

Go to our catalog: http://tinyurl.com/8mo5z/.  Select Chabot and then click on "Enter."  Select "Additional" from the options above the search form.  A new search form will appear.  Enter the following words in this order: Presidents United States Election.  Select the "Subject" button below.  What you do next is browse the list of subject headings.  Each subject heading will give you a list of book titles.  All titles that are highlighted in blue are not checked out.  Those with the green asterisks on the left are those available at Chabot Library (not Las Positas Library)
 

Campaigns and Elections (The American President)

       http://www.americanpresident.org/KoTrain/courses/index/Index_campaigns_and_elections.htm
 

President Elect
        http://www.presidentelect.org/

Palm Beach County Ballot

        http://a388.g.akamai.net/f/388/21/15m/www.cnn.com/2000/LAW/11/09/reno.weekly.pol/
        findlaw.sample.ballot.jpg

election 1996 library research guide--  The Library has a library research guide devoted to the 2000 election, along with its regular elections web page (which includes a special section on the 2003 California governor recall election).  For information on the 1996 election, search databases such as EbscoHost, Lexis-Nexis, and the ProQuest Diversity news sources or look at University of Michigan's Government Documents in the News 1996, Online NewsHour Election Night '96, FrontLine: The Choice '96, and The MoJo Wire--Race for the White House.