The Election of 2000 Was Not Legitimate
The election was not legitimate due to many mistakes and foul play taking place like Florida voter errors, 20,000 people were not able to vote or their vote was invalid, the supreme Court, and the Bush campaign is also the reason why this election was scrutinized with. The Bush campaign had a lot with stopping the recount and corrupting the system. They worked to stop the recount by supporting a group of voters in Florida who were suing the federal district court for an injunction to stop the hand recount. When doing the recount, republicans were not being fair to the democrats because they also disqualified overseas ballots that favored Gore and they were pressuring election officials …show more content…
The recount was in progress on December 9 when the United States Supreme Court granted Bush's emergency plea for a stay of the Florida Supreme Court recount ruling, which stopped the recount making it incomplete. The Supreme Court also ruled that when the state of Florida's court ordered a hand recount of vote ballots in the 2000 presidential election, it was “unconstitutional”. Florida voters were part of the reason why it cost Al Gore the 2000 election and why this election was illegitimate because of the mistakes they made when casting their votes. But even if the supreme court ruled in their favor and counted all the votes, there was still no way to correct all the mistakes once they were casted within such a short amount of time. This was irreversible from the minute voters made a mistake. It was doomed from the start. Above all, after doing some extensive research of this election, USA Today did a recount after the election and it highlighted that their review revealed, "The American system of elections routinely fails to count hundreds of thousands of ballots because of errors by voters, confusing ballot instructions, poorly designed ballots, flawed voting and counting machines and the failure of
The election was not legitimate due to many mistakes and foul play taking place like Florida voter errors, 20,000 people were not able to vote or their vote was invalid, the supreme Court, and the Bush campaign is also the reason why this election was scrutinized with. The Bush campaign had a lot with stopping the recount and corrupting the system. They worked to stop the recount by supporting a group of voters in Florida who were suing the federal district court for an injunction to stop the hand recount. When doing the recount, republicans were not being fair to the democrats because they also disqualified overseas ballots that favored Gore and they were pressuring election officials …show more content…
The recount was in progress on December 9 when the United States Supreme Court granted Bush's emergency plea for a stay of the Florida Supreme Court recount ruling, which stopped the recount making it incomplete. The Supreme Court also ruled that when the state of Florida's court ordered a hand recount of vote ballots in the 2000 presidential election, it was “unconstitutional”. Florida voters were part of the reason why it cost Al Gore the 2000 election and why this election was illegitimate because of the mistakes they made when casting their votes. But even if the supreme court ruled in their favor and counted all the votes, there was still no way to correct all the mistakes once they were casted within such a short amount of time. This was irreversible from the minute voters made a mistake. It was doomed from the start. Above all, after doing some extensive research of this election, USA Today did a recount after the election and it highlighted that their review revealed, "The American system of elections routinely fails to count hundreds of thousands of ballots because of errors by voters, confusing ballot instructions, poorly designed ballots, flawed voting and counting machines and the failure of