Absolutely false. More the opposite is true, actually.
Anti-liberals were furious that the Florida vote recount was going on and on, and wanted to shut it down. They used the Republican controlled Supreme Court to force the issue.
The “hanging chad” problem was a real one, and was the result of ANOTHER bad idea being used to make voting machines in Florida. Specifically, someone thought that punching out pre-cut tabs in order to physically select a choice, was a good way to make it clear how you wanted to vote. Compared to trying to read a pencil mark, that does SEEM smarter.
But as a way to do a recount later,it was a complete failure. I would be willing to bet real money, that the people who decided to use those pre-cut punch cards, never once bothered to think through a recount, and certainly didn’t TEST such a scenario. If they had, they would have discovered as the recounters did, that pre-cut punches tend to start falling out on their own, when the card is run through a machine to count or sort it a couple of times. And even just dropping it in a box, and then getting it out again to try to read it can cause “chads” to fall out.
Notice, by the way, that it isn’t the so-called “liberals” who are fanatically demanding all sorts of changes to voting systems and rules across the country for the last two decades. That’s the paranoid ANTI-liberals doing that.
As for why people come up with whichever voting machine choice they do, that’s most likely to be less due to evil plots, than it is due to the fact that the people who are put in charge of making such decisions, are rarely experts in technology and how it can fail. They are usually low level bureaucrats, who end up picking whatever they think the latest cool-looking technology of the moment is, and unless they are forced to, they don’t actually test the system they choose rigorously in a challenging situation.
I DESPISE the setup Virginia is using right now. They took away my curtained booth, where I could make my selections in private and cast my ballot before coming out again, and now I have to choose things on a giant card that I must write on in front of everyone else, at a table in a huge room, and then carry to a voting machine at the front of the room, and feed in, as though I am putting it into a shredder. I get NO confirming screen, to indicate that my vote was counted as I recorded it. I have to trust that they electronically read my choices as I scribbled them.