[Peach]

Well that's clear as mud.

I'll check in tomorrow to see if someone else answered my question in a way that is understandable.

[dinasour]

Whether you are counting potato chips or votes there is a certain margin off error that is unavoidable. The difference between the two candidates was so far within that margin that no one knows who really won. It was a statistical tie.

The Democrat's plan was to keep counting the votes until the margin of error was in their favor declare that was the true result.

To accommodate just such a situation, fairly, Florida law and constructed a system of "sudden death overtime". Do your recounts, but whoever is ahead at such and such a date wins.

The Florida Supreme Count tried to maintain that Florida law only applies if it favors Democrats. The U. S. Supreme Court stopped that.

The U. S. Supreme Court did not steal the election, it stopped the Florida Supreme Court from stealing the election.

[CFC__VRWC]

Probably the best explanation out there for what went on during the Florida recount can be found in Bill Sammon's book At Any Cost: How Al Gore Tried to Steal the Election. I lived that month right here in Florida, but it was at a time when I was working 70-80 hours per week. I kept up as best as I could, but never got a good complete picture until I read that book. I need to dig it out and re-read it to refresh my memory on a lot of the details.

I do recall the ridiculously blatant media cheerleading for Gore clearly, though. It was causing the race to slip away from George Bush - there was this general sense that Gore was going to find a way to steal the election, no matter what Bush did, thanks to the media. That completely turned, however, when Gore and his lawyers started trying to throw out military ballots. After that, and after the public outrage over that, I started thinking that maybe things were going to turn out all right after all.

Definitely try to read that book, though.