Recount In Political History

The race for the presidency in the year 2000 was very controversial. Now after watching the movie Recount it is obvious that George W. Bush illegitimately won the election. Firstly, older voters were confused on how to fill out the ballot, which ended up in a significant amount of dimpled chad that were not counted by the machines, therefore robbing thousands of people of their right to vote for the president they wished to be in office, not to mention that it may have costed Gore the presidency. When the chad were first run through the counting machine they would add 3000 votes to Bush and subtract 3000 votes from Gore. After it came to light that the votes in Florida were illegitimate, Vice President Gore recanted his concession …show more content…
The new deadline was November 23rd which meant they only had five more days to finish the recount. Secretary of State Katherine Harris also encouraged the company Database Tech to discount votes of non-felons if they had names similar to actual felons. The result was that 20,000 people were not allowed to vote. In one county, 697 people were labeled felons, while only 33 were actual felons; that is how immense the unbalance was. After the county of Miami-Dade abandoned their recount due to group of angry Republicans occupying a government building, all eyes then focused on Palm Beach County. There they sent a request for an extension on the deadline to finish their hand recount. Palm Beach County had already recounted 460,000 votes, but still had 1,000 votes they had not yet recounted. Of course their request was denied and due to this there was a lawsuit that ended up in the U.S. Supreme Court, named Gore V. Harris. The U.S. Supreme Court ordered that Florida must recount all underhand votes, and said Florida had until December 12th to do