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By 4:30 a.m., after all votes were counted, Gore had narrowed Bush's margin to under 2,000 votes, and the networks retracted their declarations that Bush had won Florida and the presidency. Gore, who had privately conceded the election to Bush, withdrew his concession. The final result in Florida was slim enough to require a mandatory recount ...
Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court on December 12, 2000, that settled a recount dispute in Florida's 2000 presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore.
The "butterfly ballot" used in Palm Beach County, Florida, was suspected of causing Al Gore's supporters to accidentally vote for Pat Buchanan. The 2000 United States presidential election recount in Florida was a period of vote recounting in Florida that occurred during the weeks after Election Day in the 2000 United States presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore.
Officially, Bush and Democrat Al Gore were separated by just 537 votes in Florida, which ultimately determined the election after a still-debated U.S. Supreme Court decision.
If Gore had won the recount, then he would have won the election with a total of 292 electoral votes, and Bush would have lost with 246 electoral votes. Post-election analysis has found that Palm Beach County's butterfly ballot misdirected over 2,000 votes from Gore to third-party candidate Pat Buchanan, tipping Florida—and the election—to ...
On this day in 2000, the Supreme Court ruled in the Bush v. Gore case. Here's what the landmark 5-4 decision means for today's Electoral College.
Bush took 271 of the 538 electoral votes, winning the decisive state of Florida by a margin of 537 votes after a recount was halted by the Supreme Court in the case of Bush v. Gore. Bush was the first winning presidential candidate to lose the popular vote since the 1888 presidential election. This marked the first time since 1988 that the ...
Every election cycle, my husband has a story he likes to tell about his first-grade election night assignment—he had to fill in the 2000 Bush vs. Gore electoral map. (I asked him whether he did ...