[okie01]

So why didn’t we know until much later that GWB won?

SCOTUS handed down their Bush v Gore decision on December 12, 2000 -- effectively halting the re-count. The electors cast their ballots on December 18 -- as scheduled -- and Bush officially became the president-elect.

Bush v Gore

Does that resolve your question?

[Balding_Eagle]

Yes it does, thank you.

It does raise the question of why my memory has failed me, somehow I remembered it wasn’t resolved until much later..