2) The Supreme Court decision stopping the recounts was 7-2, not 5-4 as widely revised. Check it out and check out the reports from when it was given.
3) There is no evidence that minorities were disenfranchised. Ask a person making this claim to provide evidence if they claim there is some.
4) The state was called for Gore at least 10 minutes before the polls closed in the panhandle by several networks. There are claims, more credible than those that minorities were disenfranchised or elderly people misplaced their votes, that Bush voters on the panhandle got out of line rather than voting, costing Bush votes.
The reality is that the Florida election fell within the "margin of error" such that a minor adjustment here or that could have given either candidate the win. But in every reasonable recount by the press, Bush won, and the number of voters that Bush lost in the panhandle likely cancels any possible case of minority voter disenfranchisement that can be considered. What about all those Buchannan votes? It's entirely possible that hundreds voted for him in Palm Beach County. I believe he owns a house there. And the bottom line is that we can't assume that everyone who didn't vote for Gore would have any more than we can assume that every bad ballot was an intended vote for Bush.
Also, ask any Gore supporters if they are troubled by the legendary voter fraud in the Democratic Northeastern cities. My stepmother (a widow who married my father) had to tear the voting card for her first deceased husband out of the voting book in Hudson County, New Jersey to stop him from voting while dead. Does that sort of stuff trouble the Gore supporter as much as the unsupported allegations of voter disenfranchisement in Florida do? And while you are at it, ask them why Democrats consider asking a voter for identification to prove that they are who they claim to be before they vote "harassment". This demonstrates that Democrats have zero interest in fair elections. They will simply say anything and do anything to win, which is why leftist thugs need to be kept out of power.
Actually, I believe you'll find that the 7-2 vote was on the question of whether the Florida Supreme Court had acted in a Constitutional manner in injecting itself into the dispute (for lack of a better term); they did not, as the USSC so ruled. Of the seven justices concurring, only five agreed that stopping the recount was the proper remedy.
It's never ceased to amaze that the goofball Left still yammers on about the ''5-4 selection of the president''. This decision just was not very complex. In any case, the only other remedy available to the USSC was a 12th Amendment ruling, throwing the question where it really belonged -- into the Florida Legislature. The result would have been the same, certainly; both houses were Republican-majority at the time.