Well here's the
facts
- Al Gore and his minions requested recounts in 'select counties' instead of state wide.
- At least one of the counties, Palm Beach IIRC, was not finished with their recount in the allotted time as stated in Florida's Election Laws.
- As such and in accordance with the law, Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris, using the LEGAL count on hand at that time, declared Bush the winner and awarded him the electoral votes.
- Al Gore's lawyers didn't like that and then went to court to 'keep counting' --- and they lost.
- They appealed -- and lost again.
- They re-appealed, this time to the SCOFL (supreme court of Fl)
- Ignoring the EXISTING Election Laws, the SCOFL ruled 'the law be damned', the voters 'intent' was more important than any Law or time constraint in said law.
- After this absurd and ILLEGAL ruling, Bush's lawyers finally got involved.
- As time was of the essence, Bush's lawyers appealed directly to SCOTUS (Supreme Court Of the US).
- SCOTUS ruled that what the SCOFL ruled was wrong and 'instructed' them to 'reconsider' their ruling and retry the case -- OR DROP IT.
- After being totally embarrassed (and dressed down) by SCOTUS - That's exactly what the SCOFL did, they dropped it and the counting stopped with the numbers in effect at the time Katherine Harris previously declared Bush the winner.
NOTE - SCOTUS did not 'select' Bush, all they did was overturn the illegal ruling made by the SCOFL - period, end of story.
In addition, there was two rulings by SCOTUS and the one that overturned the SCOFL 'counting ruling' was 7 to 2!! NOT 5 to 4 as the liberals leftists claim. I have that whole fiasco seared in my mind, seared I tell you, as if it was yesterday. Just like Kerry's memories of Cambodia -- only mine are true!
An aside; Equally important and always ignored now by the left is that there has been at least SIX recounts by major news organizations (maybe eight). And in every recount, under every counting method used by the dems, BUSH STILL WINS. Hanging chads, dimpled chads, pregnant chads - Bush Won.
In one counting scenario Gore came up as the winner. However it was IF all the 'non' votes (blanks) or 'over votes' were given to Gore. But those type of votes are always thrown out or not counted. That's never, no place, or under any condition.
SCOTUS Bush v Gore