“If you were on this board back then you know the truth .. 2000 was the Dem trying to steal an election and now history”
Al Gore was simply on a vote shopping expedition with a compliant and very political Florida judiciaries assistance - changing the rules after the votes were recorded and doing so only for those counties Gore was vote-shopping in
at no time did Gore seek to “correct” anything about the voting statewide or seek a statewide count on any new basis
the entire time he was seeking to squeeze a few more votes out of some Dim-dominant counties, and forcing the state total to be adjusted therewith
the Florida judiciary went along with the vote shopping expedition and the U.S. Supreme Court - twice - told them - the courts - to knock it off
the judges antics in support of Gore were not only set in opposition to the Florida state constitution, they had the affect of disenfranchising all the voters of all the counties the judicial rulings were not to apply to, setting one class of voters - those who Gore wanted to go shopping for - as deserving of general rules for vote counting that were not to be applied to all Florida voters - thus the “equal protection” clause was violated by the Gore-judicial-assisted cherry picking
regardless, in accordance with the Florida and U.S. Constitutions, the Florida legislature had already certified the winner of the Florida vote in the constitutionally required time frame
four years later the Florida voters vindicated the U.S. Supreme Court decision (maybe, in part, because the people in the Florida panhandle did not hear the game was over before they voted that time - as they did in 2000)
To add a needed dimension to your post...
The reason Gore specified Broward, Palm Beach and Dade Counties is because a.) they favored Democrats and b.) they used the punchcard ballot (and its famous chads).
Note that William Daley, the mayor of Chicago, was Gore's campaign manager and that Cook County has always used punchcard ballots -- for a reason that will become apparent.
It is the nature of punchcard ballots that, every time they are handled, more chads will fall out. Run a thousand punchcard ballots and get a result of say, 500 to 470 -- a thirty vote margin with thirty no votes. Run them thru a second time...and you'll get something like 505 to 474 -- a 31 vote margin with 21 no votes. A third time...and you'll get maybe 509 to 477 -- a 32 vote margin with 14 no votes.
In other words, with each recount, the Democrat running in Broward, Dade and Palm Beach Counties was bound to gain votes by virtue of the punchcard's physical characteristics.
But, if you recounted the votes in Republican counties using punchcards -- then it would be Bush who would gain votes.
Recall that Daley and Gore were riding together to what was going to be Gore's concession speech. Somewhere along the way, Daley had to say, "Al, we can still cheat our way into the White House". And, while the limousine sat in the square surrounded by the crowd, Al must've turned to Daley and said "Let's go for it".
Recall also that Dade County started the recount and, then, about half way through their precincts halted the operation. That was because they had counted all the Democrat precincts, maxing out Gore's vote gain in the county. If they had counted the rest of the precincts, Bush would've narrowed the margin.
Further recall that the State Supreme Court approved the Dade County recount as it was, even though it was only half-completed, specifically ordering that those numbers would become part of the state's official count. Otherwise, Bush's eventual 537 vote margin would've been over a thousand.
Between Gore, the Democrat party and the Florida State Supreme Court, there was a concerted effort to steal the 2000 election in Florida. Those who say otherwise are a.) lying or b.) blind partisans.