“Your vote matters” was the most repeated platitude to emerge from the 2000 U.S. presidential election. But, the uncertainties of the recount mechanism—procedural, legal and human—showed that any individual vote counts even less than the skeptics had believed.

Cecil E. Bohanon is a professor of economics at Ball State University.
T. Norman Van Cott is a professor of economics at Ball State University.
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