Election Of 2000 Essay

In no way was the Presidential election of 2000 legitimate. Votes were completely stolen from the people of Florida and the next President was ultimately decided by a mere nine people. The way in which this election happened was a complete disgrace to the American Democratic process and forever left a stain on this Nation’s Presidential election process. To begin with, the number of votes that Gore was receiving was not in accordance to that of exit polls taken. When the first T.V. networks deemed the winner of Florida’s 25 electoral votes, Gore had won. However, due to Bush’s influence on Florida’s government machine, those networks soon rescinded their calling and announced that the state was still undecided. It was later reported on November 8 that Bush had won Florida with 1,784 votes which is only .03%. Once this information was gained, Gore retracted his
Once this issue was brought to the Supreme Court by the Bush campaign the Court ruled that because the recount had not been conducted fully by the deadline that the current amount of votes would determine who won the Presidency. At the time of the stay Gore was only down by 98 votes with a total of 51 counties still left to count. In addition, there was already a law in Florida that directly addressed this issue and stated which Chad to be counted and how. In the case Darby V. Sate, it was stated that in a recount all dimpled Chad must be counted and all indications of intent must be counted as well. The Supreme Court should have followed the law already clearly addressing this issue, but they did not. The reason for this is because at the time of the 2000 election the Supreme Court sided Republican due to the majority of the Justices being so. In conclusion, no matter what way you look at it, the facts are clear. The election was rigged in favor of Bush. Clear and