2000 Election 2000 Research Paper

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One of the most tension-filled, stressful, and close elections, was the election for the 54th presidency of the United States of America. This election involved Republican Nominee George W. Bush, Democratic Nominee Albert Gore, and Green Party Nominee Ralph Nader. To begin with, this election was extremely close, as the votes between G.W.Bush and Al Gore were only a mere 537 votes.[1] The legitimacy of this election comes into question, when the electoral votes of Florida caused enormous dispute. The results from the Florida votes were basically 50/50, which triggered an automatic machine recount."The final margin of the Florida vote is reported to be 1,784 votes; Bush leads Gore 2,909,135 (48.8%) to 2,907,351 (48.8%) with other candidates …show more content…

This caused outrage, because people from specific (left leaning) counties were complaining that they were confused by the ballot itself. In my opinion, even if there was a statewide recount, Albert Gore still wouldn't win. "According to a massive months-long study commissioned by eight news organizations in 2001, George W. Bush probably still would have won even if the U.S. Supreme Court had allowed a limited statewide recount to go forward as ordered by Florida’s highest court."[1] On the other hand, I do believe that Gore could've won, if he had requested to recount all disputed ballots nationwide. "However, Gore never asked for such a recount. The Florida Supreme Court ordered only a recount of so-called "Undervotes," about 62,000 ballots where voting machines didn’t detect any vote for a presidential candidate."[1] There could have been outstanding chances to secure Gore's win, but there were only unfortunate events that cost his Presidency. There are many who argue that Ralph Nader had also cost Gore his Presidency, and there is only a tiny part of me that agrees with this.

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