Gore’s “victory” was 0.51% of the vote (half a percentage point).
Well within any margin of error. You seriously wouldn’t recount ballots and challenge stolen votes?
It was a “coin toss” popular vote that landed on the edge of the coin but that isn’t how our elections are determined.
Under both the current system and the National Popular Vote approach, all counting, recounting, and judicial proceedings must be conducted so as to reach a “final determination” prior to the uniform nationwide date for the meeting of the Electoral College in mid-December. The initial vote count and the recount would be handled in the same way as they are currently handled—that is, under generally serviceable laws of each state that govern all elections.
If the popular vote count were extremely close on a nationwide basis, it would be very likely that the vote count would also be close in a number of battleground states.
As Senator David Durenberger (R–Minnesota) said in the Senate in 1979:
“There is no reason to doubt the ability of the States and localities to manage a recount, and nothing to suggest that a candidate would frivolously incur the expense of requesting one. And even if this were not the case, the potential danger in selecting a President rejected by a majority of the voters far outweighs the potential inconvenience in administering a recount.”
Most Americans think it would be wrong for the candidate with the most popular votes to lose. We don’t allow this in any other election in our representative republic.