Depends on your standard and which recount you look at. From <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Florida_election_recount#Post-election_studies" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Florida_election_recount#Post-...</a> :<p>&gt; under the strictest standard, where only a cleanly punched ballot with a fully removed chad was counted, Gore won by three votes.[38] Under all other standards, Bush won, with Bush&#x27;s margin increasing as looser standards were used. ... because of the possibility of mistakes, it is difficult to conclude that Gore was surely the winner under the strict standard ...<p>While in another analysis &quot;Bush won under stricter standards and Gore won under looser standards&quot;<p>And there are also the &quot;spoiled ballots&quot; where &quot;people had punched and written in a candidate’s name&quot;, eg, for people who would &quot;check Gore and write Gore&quot;. These were rejected, even though the voter&#x27;s intent was clear. &quot;The Washington Post found that Gore’s name was punched on 46,000 of the over-vote ballots it, while Bush’s name was marked on only 17,000&quot;<p>But with all the attention on hanging chad, we didn&#x27;t hear about that last issue. (I didn&#x27;t until I read it just now!)