Carpinteria’s Ann Louise Bardach Makes Appearance in New HBO Doc ‘537 Votes’

Over the years, Carpinteria resident Ann Louise Bardach has emerged as a high-impact South Coast citizen activist, most recently leading a crusade against the county supervisors’ open-door policy with the cannabis industry. But Bardach is more widely known as a nationally acclaimed journalist for publications such as the New York Times and Vanity Fair. This week, Bardach appeared in the new HBO documentary 537 Votes, about the much-debated Florida recount that “settled” the 2000 presidential election and essentially gave George W. Bush the White House.

An expert on the convoluted intrigue surrounding Cuban-American politics, Bardach is in her element commenting on that race, which, given the critical importance of Florida’s electoral votes in the Trump-Biden showdown, still resonates.