In the 2000 Presidential Race, controversy in Florida between Gore and Bush started many protest and questioned how legitimate the election results were. Personally I believe the election was not legitimate for many reasons. With Bush recording 2,909,135 votes and Gore recording 2,907,351 votes the difference between the two is only 1,784. Not only is this a close number but this was before the machine recount which closed the gap to a 324 vote difference. With a difference of 324 votes, the U.S Supreme Court to issue a stay on the statewide recount that was issued on December 9th. This was a day after they issued a statewide manual recount. Not only did they issue a stay on the recount but then reasoned that there was not enough time to meet
