2000 Pros And Cons

The equal protection clause of the Constitution provided George W. Bush with a historical argument that surprisingly fit his case. Not every Floridians ballot was provided with the same protections. There was no statewide vote recount procedure, every county had their own provisions.Two voters could have marked their ballots in an identical manner, but the ballot in one county would be counted while the ballot in a different county would be rejected, due to the conflicting manual recount

The 2000 President Election isn’t considered to be the typical election that occurs every four years in our society. I am opening up the discussion of this important topic in American presidential history by first sharing a fact that not many people may know: there have been three previous presidential elections in which one candidate won the popular vote but not the electoral vote and lost the election. The 2000 Presidential Election was considered to be one of the most highly contested elections in presidential election history (Summary). The election was between Governor George W. Bush (R-TX) and Vice President Al Gore (D-TN). On Election Day night, news stations across the country were all giving an early win of Florida to Gore and

It doesn’t take a political expert to see that the 2000 presidential election between Bush and Gore was extremely illegitimate. This can be observed through the recount incident which took place in the state of Florida. Many people, especially seniors, felt that they had not voted for the right candidate, which was due to a confusing ballot setup. The ballots were called “butterfly ballots”. These ballots, as one could imagine, had candidates on either side which the voter could choose from. Seems simple enough, right? Unfortunately, that was not the case. The font on the ballots were extremely minuscule, as well as condensed. To add to that, the voter had to use a pin to make a puncture next to their selection. Some people, who were either

The election of 2000 was legitimate and I think George W. Bush won that election fair and square. He won the election because all the votes that were recounted were still in his favor and the votes were greater than Al Gore’s votes.For example, according to the legislature of Florida ninety-nine percent of the ballots were recounted and the votes ended up being higher than the recounted votes for Al Gore.In addition, Bush won the electoral college vote even with the recount which proves that this election was legitimate. Another reason why I think that Bush won this election was because some democratic voters did not correctly fill in their vote or they changed their vote before turning in the ballot.The issue of Palm Beach County in Florida,

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 night of the election it seemed as if the Vice President and candidate for the Democratic Party was poised for a close victor. As the polls closed along the eastern seaboard, exit polling information indicated a clear, but narrow lead for the Vice President as he still need to secure Florida and two states totaling 15 electoral votes or more to win the Presidency (Toobin, 18). At 7:49 EST, NBC called Florida and the election for Gore, and so did 2 of the 4 major television networks did the same in the following minutes. As the night continued Gore secured Minnesota and New Mexico, but confusion in exit polling data had led to a premature call for Gore (18, Toobin). As the red eye hours of the morning continued all four media outlets reported a flood of data from Volusia County, Daytona Beach put Bush up by more than 50,000 votes, thus the media outlets followed suit and eventually called Florida for Bush. Although a questionable disappearance of

The Supreme Court said that the state of Florida’s court-ordered manual recount would have been unconstitutional. They voted a 5-4 to end the hand recount of the votes in Florida. Due to the way they were recounting the votes, some by the dimple votes or some counting the hanging chads the U.S Supreme Court stated it was to inconsistent to recount. Five of the justices said the under Florida law the vote was finalized on December 12th. They also said that this ruling was for this case and only this

The African American population in the United States overwhelmingly leans toward more Liberal candidates. Since Gore was behind by 16,000 votes, this could have drastically changed the election. Also, there was 175,000 uncounted ballots. This was due to some citizens having difficulty with fully punching through ballots. This was a contentious debate across the entire state and across party lines. Also, thousands of senior citizens accidentally voted for Pat Buchanan instead of Al Gore due to the confusing structure of the official ballots. After various recounts, Al Gore was down by 98 votes. During this time, the Supreme Court issued a stay and halted all recounts. Justices like Antonin Scalia claimed “irreparable harm” if the remaining votes were counted. The Democrats felt like Anthony Kennedy was their last chance of swinging the SCOTUS in their direction. Ultimately, the Court ruled in Bush’s

This lead to the exclusion of several thousands of votes that could have potentially won Gore the election, and their exclusion was enough to grant some semblance of moral high ground against the Republican opposition. The Democrats made the claim that they should have been allowed to vote under florida law, but any attempts to allow them their vote proved fruitless. After extensive decrying of the Republican party, the Democrats were soon found to be the target of several improper allegations themselves. A number of “Overvotes” had been detected on several ballots of other counties, and this lead the Republicans to accuse the Democrats of voter fraud and the inclusion of illegal votes. The continuous stream of slander from both sides dragged on ad nauseum, interrupted only by a series of supreme court decisions presumably brought about by the influence the Republican party has on them. Everything from attempts to exclude armed service votes to changing the criteria for vote counting were employed, and to great

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.

The presidential election of 2000 between George Bush and Al Gore was not a legitimate. First the result of the election in Florida election would have meant that there would have had to be a recount to make sure Bush was the winner. Some counties of Florida did not recount the ballots. Furthermore, secretary of state Katherine Harris did everything she could to stop the recount so that Bush could win the election. Second, when the recount was allowed by an appellate court, it was stopped. The recount was stopped by the Supreme Court so that they could hear the case. The result of the case did not give enough time to recount all of the ballots. The presidential election of 2000 was not legitimate because not every vote was

Bush on December 13, 2000. Months after the United States Supreme Court delivered its ruling to stop the statewide hand recount in Florida, media and academic organizations conducted their own studies of the ballots in Florida. Some recent studies show Bush would have most likely won the Florida statewide recount of all under votes. The studies also show that Gore likely would have won a statewide recount of all undervotes and overvotes. However, his legal team never pursued this action. It is believed that more voters went to the polls in Florida on Election Day intending to vote for Gore than for Bush. Even 15 years after the election, partisans on each side make or pick various scenarios that would have favored their

The movie “Recount” is about the 2002 presidential election associating George W. Bush and Al Gore. The movie demonstrates how much of a dilemma they, the presidential candidates and team members, go through just to have either Bush or Gore win the presidency. With that, I strongly believe Gore was the winner; however, Bush won because of Katherine Harris, Secretary of State for Florida. In the event that Harris makes up a dim-witted rule stating that there could only be a recount if a hurricane occurred. Once the state of Florida called Katherine Harris a perjurer on the suscept, they granted permission for six counties in Florida to recount; hence, the title of the movie. With the intention of getting Gore to win, they race to the time

The 2000 Presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore was not legitimate, and the numbers show the facts. The senior citizens of Palm Beach, Florida voted for Al Gore but because of the structure of the ballot and the chad, the machine read their votes for Republican candidate Pat Buchanan instead. The citizens of this Florida County demanded for a recount, hence the name of the movie, because they wanted their votes to count and their voices to be witnessed. However, in order for a recount to happen Secretary of State, Katherine Harris would have to concede it. She silences the voice of the Florida people because it’s past the Certification Deadline and because she’s Republican.