- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the paintball scene, at least one player does not have a hopper on his or her gun, and is therefore shooting blanks.
- Continuity: Dobbs has wedding ring shown in scenes prior to marrying.
- Continuity: During the heavy snow scenes, only the cars in close-ups appeared to be using their windshield wipers.
- Factual errors: In the movie, Delacroy wins the national contract to supply all voting machines for the upcoming election. This would be impossible, as all conditions for national elections are determined by each state, and not on a national level.
- Plot holes: When the voting machine is shown in action, it shows the votes for each candidate and then calculates the winner. However, since the vote count can be seen, there is no need to calculate a winner. Also, a person could tell which vote count is higher and would not believe the calculations.
- Continuity: When the people who break into Eleanor's motel room are in it, her door changes from being open to being closed and then open again.
- Crew or equipment visible: In the scene where Eleanor leaves her bathroom before she is assaulted, the camera can be seen in the tiles on the left, just before she turns the lights out.
- Factual errors: During the Saturday Night Live taping, the SNL cameras on screen appear to be recording in standard 4:3 aspect ratio, per the blue lines around the monitors on the cameras, whereas SNL is always recorded in 16:9 aspect ratio, as appear on the crew monitors on the set.
- Factual errors: Immediately after the election, Secret Service members refer to Dobbs as "Mr. President," instead of the proper "Mr. President-Elect."
- Factual errors: When President Elect Dobbs leaves his dressing room to perform on Saturday Night Live, no secret service agents are guarding his door, nor do any follow him to the stage set.
- Continuity: When Eleanor goes to the vending machine to get a soda and it will not take her dollar so she goes to the hotel clerk for change. Eleanor takes a one dollar bill from her wallet but hands the clerk a five dollar bill, when he picks it up it is a one dollar bill again.
- Miscellaneous: In the scene in the Laundromat, there is a sign in the background indicating no rollerskating, etc... Rollerskating is spelled "rollerscating". In fact this same sign also has the word "Strictly" spelled as "Stricly"
- Errors in geography: The movie is supposed to take place in Washington, yet it is quite clear at several parts of the film that the actual filming location is Toronto. This includes the obvious glass ceiling of the BCE Place and the road signs while the characters are driving.
- Crew or equipment visible: While Eleanor is standing at the vending machine at the motel, a black car drives by from right to left. The camera is visible in the reflection off the side of the car.
- Miscellaneous: When Eleanor is in her hotel room, "Wheel Of Fortune" is playing on her TV, you can hear the contestant say, she wants the letter "S", the host then says "Yeah, there are two of them" and then when there is a close up of the TV, you can clearly see there are three S's on the board.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Dobbs uses the new computer to cast his vote, the screen gives him four choices of language: English, Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese. Although the language choices should be displayed in the native language rather than in English, many such devices often do not respect that convention and this could be another indication of bad Delacroy programming.
- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): At one point, Dobbs makes a joke that if Mama Cass had given Karen Carpenter her sandwich, both of them would be alive. Mama Cass died of a heart attack, not, as is commonly believed, by choking on a sandwich.
- Continuity: The board on The Wheel of Fortune game changes. In the first shot, we only have two words. In the third viewing we now have an extra space on the bottom creating a one letter word, and the top left box has been mysteriously filled in with a 'C'.
- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When President-Elect Dobbs addresses Congress in costume, he begins by saying "Thank you Mr. Chairman". There is no Chairman in Congress. He should have said Mr. Speaker.
- Factual errors: Tom Dobbs says: "NASA spent 30 Million dollars creating the pen that would write upside down in space. Did you know that? The Russians, how ever, were able to solve this problem with a five-cent pencil! Writes right side up, writes up-side down. After five quarts of vodka, is still writing!" In reality, pencils were originally used by the American and Russian space programs but were disgarded because they were impractical for usage in outer space: The wooden barrel is flammable, and the graphite dust generated conducts electricity.
- Continuity: After Eleanor gets change for her dollar, we see her take the change, but when she walks out of the room back towards the machine, she is holding a dollar bill again.
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- Factual errors: SPOILER: The Constitution does not have provisions for a second presidential election. If the candidate who wins the presidency drops out before the inauguration, the VP-elect would take his place. If the election is found corrupt, then the House would vote.
- Errors in geography: SPOILER: When the Delacroy hit man is calling in Eleanor's position during the snowstorm, he refers to Route 173. There is no such road in the Washington DC area.
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