2000 African American Election Of 2000

According to the Constitution, every U.S. citizen has the right to vote. However, this constitutional right was not upheld in the Gore vs Bush election. The election of 2000 was not legitimate. First and foremost, George W. Bush limited 20,000 people from casting a vote. He prompted Katherine Harris to make a list of felons and restrict their voting rights. Instead of limiting only felons, the computer found innocent people with identical names as felons and disqualified them from casting a ballot. Many law abiding citizens had been stripped of their vote. Furthermore, many people in Palm Beach County voted for who they wanted elected as president. Unfortunately, many of their votes were not represented because they left dimpled chads on their

In my opinion, Gore won the election of 2000 if there hadn’t been any interference, had also recounted all the votes, and also counted the 175,000 uncounted ballots. I believe that Gore would of won the election but didn't because of several mistakes and interventions the Republican party had in the election in Florida. One of the tremendous errors was caused by the lady in charge of writing the ballot, she had placed Al Gore’s name next to another candidate causing chaos between the voters who believed that they had voted for the other candidate instead of Al Gore. Therefore, causing Gore to lose votes.Another reason I believe he lost the election was because of the interference Katherine Harris had in the votes. She did this when she

This is when the controversy of the election begins to seep in. Initially, Bush was the leader of votes in Florida by a wide margin. That margin drastically dropped as the votes continued to be counted. The official number came in giving Bush the majority of votes by a very slim number. According to Florida Law, if the number of votes comes within a certain amount, there must be a recount of the votes6. There was also law stating that the absolute deadline for recounted votes to be turned in on was November 14th. The issue made its way to the Florida Supreme court where the decision was made to extend the deadline to November 26th. On that day Bush was again declared the winner by only about 500 votes. This prompted Gore to demand another recount. There about 70,000 ballots that were to be recounted that had already been recounted7. At this point in time, the votes were coming in well over the state mandated deadline of November 14th. The deadline was even extended by the Florida Supreme Court. It was on this issue as to where the U.S. Supreme Court stepped in. The U.S. Supreme Court was in question over the constitutionality of the Florida Supreme Court decision to extend the deadline. The U.S. Supreme Court made their decision that the extension was unconstitutional. This meant that the first official number of votes was the number that held, giving Bush the electoral votes from

The electoral college does not always vote for what the majority of the population wants. In 1824, Andrew Jackson had 99 electoral votes and 152,933 votes from the people. John Quincy Adams had 84 electoral votes and 115,696 votes from the people (Doc #3). Since neither of the men had 51% of the votes (Jackson- 41.3% and Adams- 30.9%), the vote went to the house of representatives where they elected Adams as president. The electoral college did not completely vote for what the majority of the population wanted (Jackson) so it went to the house of representatives and they elected Adams instead because the house was made up of more democrats (which was Adams’ party). In the 2000 election, George W. Bush ran against Al Gore. “Though Gore held a slim popular vote victory of 543,895 (0.5%), Bush won the electoral college 271-266” ~Review of the 2000 Election Ballots in Florida and Third Parties (Doc #5). The population had voted for Gore but the electoral college chose Bush

The question on whether Gore or Bush Won is still being talked about today. I lean more towards a Republican’s views but that doesn't mean I think Bush won fairly. It all comes down to a person's morality and judgement in whether they count the dimpled chad or not which they initially should. If Florida's votes were recounted Al Gore would have won with a ratio of 3 to 1. But in the end Bush did an exceptional job as president even if we got a war debt to pay he acted fast and I approved of his

The 2000 presidential election was completely illegitimate. Although it seemed Bush had won the 25 electoral votes there was a difference of 1,784 votes; which means there must be a mandatory recount. This recount happened because many of the voters in one county believed that their vote was wrong. They believed this because of the confusing ballot they had to use. The Vice President Al Gore’s presidential campaign team used this recount to get those votes they needed to win. However, this recount only had six days and there were 67 counties. This is where it becomes illegitimate because Katharine Harris decided she would not accept the votes past the deadline even though she was legally allowed to. As a result, The Al Gore campaign thought

The election of 2000 between George W. Bush and Al Gore was in my opinion, not legitimate. It all started in Palm Beach, Florida, where voters claimed that the voting card was confusing and they weren’t sure if they voted for Pat Buchanan on accident. “Revote! The ballot is unfair! It should be clearer where you're punching.”₁ The person responsible for the confusion was Theresa LePore. She spread candidate names onto both sides of the ballot because she said that when the names were listed on one side that the print was tiny “I was worried that the older voters would have trouble reading them.”₁ For this reason, voters in Palm Beach demanded a revote. The law in Florida states that any difference under .5% triggers a mandatory machine recount,

The election of 2000 between George W. Bush and Al Gore showed flaws in the electoral college voting system. For example, the US Supreme Court had to make decisions that have never been made before due to “irreparable harm”. In regards to Bush, irreparable harm meant that the court cases created by the Democratic Party were harming his election. The election was decided on the state of Florida. Originally, Bush won the state with 1,784 but the margin of victory was 0.3%. A machine recount begun and completed on 10 November, but most counties did not legitimately recount the ballots. Gore requested a hand recount and was given a deadline to complete all hand recounts by Katherine Harris, Secretary of State. Before the deadline was met, she declared

In 2000, as the election approached, some observers thought that Bush, interestingly also the son of a former president, could win the popular vote, but that his opponent, Gore, could win the Electoral College vote because Gore was leading in certain big states, such as California, New York and Pennsylvania. In the end, Gore secured the popular vote, but Bush won by securing the majority of votes in the Electoral College.

As in the past, the media was covering the all important election. They had always relied on exit polls as the polls closed across the nation. In reality, the Florida results were just too close to call. Nevertheless, that did not stop the media from doing so. Not once, but twice, major news media outlets were erroneous in their report. Around 8pm, it was declared that Al Gore was the projected winner of the electoral votes in the state of Florida. However, a couple of hours later, the projection was retracted and restated as Florida as being too close to call. Then, just after 2am on November 8, the mistake was made for a second time. The major networks declared George W. as the winner. This even led to Al Gore calling the Governor to concede. However, as Gore prepared to address his supporters in Nashville, Tennessee, he was alert to the shrinking numbers in Bush¡¦s lead. The final total was now less than one half of a percent lead in favor of Bush. That immediately calls for a recount of votes under state law. Subsequently, Gore called Bush and retracted his concession. It wasn¡¦t over yet! One thing was, Al Gore had prevailed in the popular vote but without Florida¡¦s tally, the electoral vote was up in the air. The election wasn¡¦t over and the recounts began.

The election recount of 2000 between George W. Bush and Al Gore happened after the unclear results of the presidential election. The recount was only in the state of Florida and was first only for four counties until the Florida Supreme Court decided for a recount of the whole state.This was one of the most controversial elections ever, even all five major news networks made the mistake of assuming all of Florida's polls closed at 7:00 pm, all five reported incorrect information. Another controversy were the acts of the Florida Supreme Court, they went received heavy criticism from republicans claiming they were ruling towards al gore.

The 20000 presidential election remains and has been described by many as one of the worst scandals of the US democracy (Jacobson and Rosenfeld, 2002). The democratic contestant Albert Gore won a large number of votes than his Republican opponent, but he ended up losing the presidency bid (Montjoy & Slaton, 2005). The result of all this relied greatly on the vote tally in Florida whereby a great figure of voters were denied the vote, confusing butterfly ballots were used, vote recounts were mishandled as well as manipulated. The last verdict regarding the election was made by a 5-4 majority of the unelected U.S Supreme Court that issued a tainted as well as an adherent ruling (Heppermann & Friedman, 2013). The American constitutional structure

On Tuesday, November 7th, 2000 the presidential election was held. The votes were counted and Bush gathered 2,909,135 votes while Gore only had 2,907,351. The difference was only 1,784 votes, which was .03%. Therefore, by Florida law, they needed to go through with a recount. Not only did the crowd create an extreme turmoil, the population also demanded a recount. The recount was granted and in the event that the recount proceeded, George Bush's team noticed Albert Gore had a vast probability of winning the election. In fact, they began to throw away thousand of votes and consequently, many votes were not counted. Thus this action made George W. Bush the 43rd president, namely because of the total of votes that were thrown away and it was

Bush received 271 electoral votes and Gore, 266 and because of the Electoral College Bush was elected into office (Doc. G). The citizens who voted for Gore did not get represented fairly because although more citizens voted for him, he lost the election.

Al Gore ran for president against G. W. Bush, in which the election was totally legit. During the movie, it displayed many interesting facts that prove that the election was rigged. During one of the elections, the government refused to allow around 20,000 people to vote. And the worst part was that citizens tried to stop them from recounting votes that they already had. And claimed a lawyer was “stealing ballot cards” which in fact he was trying to get a sample ballot card. The movie displayed many very illegal activities that the government committed to try and stop Gore from winning. If the movie is as true as it claims, then that is ridiculous and shouldn’t be allowed. And now that election will be known as a rigged one.