How many people voted in this year's election?

And how cool would it be to spend the year learning whatever you wanted to?

I'm Bethany Van Delft, and we'll get into all this and more on today's The Ten News.

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Over 150 million people voted in this year's election, which is the highest overall turnout in more than 100 years.

And with a record number of mail-in ballots, it's no surprise it took a few extra days to count enough ballots to project the winner.

Some states are still counting.

But this isn't the first time a close election has taken a while to call.

Our correspondent Pamela Kirkland has more.

Let's go back to the year 2000 and one of the wildest presidential elections in America's history.

Texas governor, George W. Bush, was running against Vice President Al Gore in a really, really tight race.

Stay with us. We're about to take you on an exciting and bumpy ride. So tight, it all came down to the results in one state.

Florida.

For Vice President Al Gore, NBC News projects that he wins the 25 electoral votes in the state. Florida. Vice President Al Gore, NBC News,

projects that he wins the 25 electoral votes in the state of Florida.

The difference in the number of votes between Bush and Gore was small, like really small.

So Florida law required the counties to do a recount and run all of the ballots through the voting machines

again.

CNN right now is moving our earlier declaration of Florida back to the too close to call column.

The vote was even closer.

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