correct wiseprince
In 2000, the Republican Secretary of State certified the election. So, the plan of the Democrats was to end-run her, and appeal to the state Supreme Court (which they controlled) and recount in selected counties (which they controlled). Either they find enough votes to steal the election in those counties or simply delay long enough to prevent Electors from being appointed.
The state legislature of Florida could have intervened and appointed the Bush Electors. But, no, the state Supreme Court wouldn’t allow that. So, the case was appealed to the federal courts, quickly moved up to the U.S. Supreme Court, and the U.S. Supreme Court put an end to the madness.
In 2016, they kind of attempted to thwart the election via recounts in selected states. They got the Green Party candidate to request these recounts (and got away with that, even though she had no standing). But, we controlled the election apparatus in each of the three states. And, we got the recount done pronto. These were machine recounts. Not millions of paper ballots. Thus, part of the delay strategy is to bring back paper ballots via mail ballots.
Sobering.