The 2000 Presidential Election

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,

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

There have been many debates that have spanned over the past decade on whether or not the 2000 presidential election was legitimate or not. Bush only won by 537 votes which is grounds for a recount so the Gore campaign was in there right to ask for one. Now this is why many people like myself believe this election to be illegitimate, Katherine Harris the secretary of state of Florida did everything she can to not comply to the recount. She also compiled a list of felons so they would not be allowed to vote, but she also added people to the list that had similar names to the criminals, some 20,000 people were turned away from voting booths. Now if she did that because she actually thought it was the right thing to do and wasn’t trying to set

The Election of 2000 between George W. Bush and Al Gore were incredibly close, causing much debate as to whether it was legitimate or not. In my opinion, I believe the election was legitimate. Winning the election depended on one state, Florida. Initially, Bush won by 15,000 voters, although one city believed that the voting process was unfair; they believe they were voting for the wrong person. When they recounted Bush only lead by 1784 votes. This number was under 3000 votes meaning they demanded an automatic recount. There was much debate on how the recount should have been done; whether it should have been select cities or the entire state. Many people believe that Bush’s campaign “rigged the system” and “cheated”. I believe

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

The controversial election of 2000 between George Bush and Al Gore was too close to determine a winner. With a margin of victory that minimal; a mandatory recount was required. The winner of the election hinged on the state of Florida, therefore a recount was done in the state of Florida to signify a winner. After the recount was finished, the outcome was Bush. The democrats pushed for a national recount; but the decision wasn’t in their favor. I believe the election of 2000 was not legitimate because the numbers show otherwise. If a national hand recount were to be sanctioned, the numbers indicate that Gore would have overturned the ruling and came out on top. Sadly, Gore never requested a statewide recount, and the recount in Florida favored

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

Was the contest between democratic candidate Al Gore by then vice president and republican candidate George W. Bush , by then governor of Texas and son of fomer president . During the elections the controversy broke who had won 25 votes. Several candidates ran for the nomination , but only three serious candidates decided to enter only Minnesota senator Paul wellstore formed an exoloratory commite.Gore failed to win the popular vote in his home state , tennesse , where he and his father had represented that state in the

The controversy that arose with the presidential election between G.W. Bush and Al Gore is still being spoken of in recent times. The main question that everybody pondered from that December day in 2000 until now is ¨Who really won the 2000 presidential election?¨ Many argue that G.W. Bush won and that is that. While others argue that not all of Al Gore's votes were counted and so disabling the fact of his possible victory. Tensions grew

Even from a Conservative standpoint, the year 2000 election was falsely counted and led to controversy that was unneeded. There are an abundance of points on why this election was wrongly concluded. Starting as of November 8th, 2000, no clear winner emerged. It was Florida’s ability to determine the final outcome of this election. A tally of the votes had Bush with 2,909,135 votes in the state. [1] Gore obtained, in the state of Florida, 2,907,351 votes. [1] This pushed Joe Lieberman to host a gathering after learning they were shadowing Bush by 1,784 votes. Al Gore’s campaign brought in new stats that conflicted the media’s. This urged Joe Lieberman to retract his concession due to the inability to do so before all votes are counted. The state

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 versus Gore in the 2000s election, In the year 2000 there's been a interruption with the electoral college ballets. The real question is who won the 2000’s election, things went toe to toe counting the votes. Most of the votes if not all needed to be recounted in the state of florida because of the strictness of the voting policy, one of the incidents that happen was one of the members of Gore’s party was going house to house to check on unregistered voters, one of the major concerns is that most of the unregistered voters couldn't vote because of discrimination. For an example, one of the people from the list was claimed to be an ex-convent but only to find most people on the list is false report. However one important input to the election

There are multiple skeptics behind the 2000 Election between George W. Bush and Al Gore. Presently the election was neck-to-neck between both candidates. The results come out and Bush is the winner by 1,784 votes (1). On the other hand, the votes counting machine started to show different numbers and elder citizens believed they selected the wrong candidates in the ballot. Arguably, Bush is in my favor of winning the election fairly. Although the movie, “Recount”, portrayed what really happened and how inequities the court systems are at that time. In fact, every courts in the U.S. was on the Republican side except Florida. As the matter of fact, Florida requested a recount and Bush still won by a margin of 537 votes (1). Since the votes were

I believe that the 2000 Bush / Gore Presidential election was illegitimate due to the fact that 9000 votes were uncounted and undercounted by the time the U. S. Supreme Court had stopped the recount.(1) The movie, Recount, shows an unbiased examination of the Democratic and Republican parties struggling to win Florida’s twenty-five electoral votes. At the end of election day, Bush had won the state by 2000 votes; however, there were 175,000 ballots declared uncountable because of hanging and/or dimpled chad. (1) This fact led the Democrats to ask Katherine Harris, Florida’s Secretary of State, for an extension for the recount. (1) After much deliberation, Katherine Harris stated that hand recounts can not happen unless there is a machine

The movie Recount revolves around the 2000 Presidential Election between Republican nominee George W. Bush and Democratic nominee Al Gore. As the voting began, results seemed to become clear that Al Gore would win the electoral vote but not the popular vote. The predominant issue with the election was that voters in Palm Beach County felt that they voted for Pat Buchanan by mistake. Consequently, the election responds in favor of Bush, and he wins the presidency. However, the question remains: Was the election legitimate? Due to lack of an actual recount, the election was not legitimate for the following reasons. First, the controversy over whether or not to count dimpled chads contributed to if the vote would be counted or not. As a result,