Court room action on pregnant, hanging, and dimpled chad. Al Gore and George Bush fight in court to win the Presidential election of of 2000. Was Gore trying to steal the election, or was Bush?
After Florida was done with the ballots, they allowed 2 national news agencies to count the ballots themselves, one being USA today and the other being the NY Times, both are considered to be liberal biased, but both came up with the same results, Bush won by a even larger margin then what the state of florida came up with.
After Florida was decided, Texas Governor George W. Bush became President-elect and began forming his transition committee. In a speech on December 13, Bush claimed he was reaching across party lines to bridge a divided America, stating that "the President of the United States is the President of every single American, of every race, and every background."
On January 6, 2001, a joint-session of Congress met to certify the electoral vote. Twenty members of the House of Representatives, most of them Democratic members of the Congressional Black Caucus, rose one-by-one to file objections to the electoral votes of Florida. However, according to an 1877 law, any such objection had to be sponsored by both a representative and a senator. No senator would co-sponsor these objections, deferring to the Supreme Court's ruling. Therefore, Gore, who was presiding in his capacity as President of the Senate, ruled each of these objections out of order.
Bush subsequently became the President-elect after the electoral votes from all 50 states and the District of Columbia were certified by the joint session of Congress. Bush took the oath of office on January 20, 2001.
Ultimately, The Media Consortium hired the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago [5] to examine 175,010 ballots that were discounted; these ballots contained under-votes (votes with no choice made for president) and over-votes (votes made with more than one choice marked). There goal was not to deduce who actually won the election but to determine the reliability and accuracy of the systems used for the voting process.
In the aftermath of the election, the first independent recount was conducted by The Miami Herald and USA Today. Counting only "undervotes" (when the vote is not detected by machine), and not considering "overvotes" (when a ballot ends up with more than one indication of a vote, for example both a punch-out and hand-written name, even if both indicating the same candidate)[38] Bush would have won in all legally requested recount scenarios.
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