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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.
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.
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 Bush. [2] The final official Florida count gave the victory to Bush by 537 votes, making it by percentage not only the closest state of the election (New ...
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.
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.
Insight from Brad Blakeman, former deputy assistant to President George W. Bush, who helped organize the protests during Florida's recount battle in 2000 presidential election between Al Gore and ...
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 ...
In the 2000 United States presidential election between candidates George W. Bush and Al Gore, in the state of Florida, George W. Bush achieved an election night majority by 1,784 votes, a very close margin.