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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin
I totally disagree with you about Florida in 2000. Bush won Florida. Gore tried to steal it. Some members of the all Democratic Florida Supreme Court tried to help him steal it. They were going to keep tampering with those ballots until Gore had more votes. Luckily the US Supreme Court put an end to it.
I don't know if you remember but even democratic judges in Florida said the election was over and Bush won. But then Gore would appeal to the Florida Supreme Court. All 7 Justices on the Fla. Supreme Court were democrats and the Court kept overturning every decision and ruling in favor of Gore. Their rulings weren't even unanimous in any of their pro-Gore rulings. There were a couple of Democrats on the Florida Supreme Court who said the election was over and Bush won, but they got out-voted by the other partisan democrats on the Court each time that Gore would appeal to them.
People talk about the US Supreme Court being partisan in their ruling. What about the Florida Supreme Court? That court was a joke. Even a couple of the Democrats on that Court thought it was disgraceful what they were doing.
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Yes, I remember what the Democrats were doing. I'm a Republican, and voted for Bush, remember?
As I said - in retrospect, I've changed my opinion. Gore has more votes in the official election record.
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The election was noteworthy for a controversy over the awarding of Florida's 25 electoral votes, the subsequent recount process in that state, and the unusual event of the winning candidate having received fewer popular votes than the runner-up.[2] This marked only the fourth election in U.S. History in which the eventual winner failed to win a plurality of the popular vote (after the elections of 1824, 1876, and 1888). Later research showed that by the standards requested by the Gore campaign in their contest brief or by the partial statewide recount set by the Florida Supreme Court, Bush would have likely won the recount anyway.[3] However, the same research indicates that had the statewide recount included all uncounted votes (overvotes as well as undervotes), as seems probable based on later statements by the judge overseeing the recount and supported by faxes made public in November, 2001, Gore would have won the election.
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