declared Gore the winner of Florida. However, by early next morning, the official tally changed to Bush and then later to undecided. At that time, Bush had 2,909,135 Florida votes to Gore’s 2,907,351. With both candidates receiving 48.8% of the votes, Florida enacted an states’ automatic recount of its electronic votes under its Election Code 102.141, which states that if the margin of victory is 0.5% or less, its accuracy must be verified. With the results up in election’s the air, intense legal debates proliferated. What became the central question was whether votes could be legitimately Florida’s verified. On November 9th, Al Gore requested the manual recount of votes in four Florida counties, yet two days later, the Bush campaign challenged under constitutional grounds. After a series of legal debates, the center of which revolved around whether the manual recount and the extension of the deadlines for counting the votes could be legally sustained, the Florida Supreme Court ruled that the manual recounts should continue and be counted in the official tally, a ruling that the Bush campaign appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. In the U.S. Supreme Court gave a multi-faceted verdict on December 12th Bush v. Gore, against the Florida Supreme ruling declaring that the manual recount of votes was Court’s prior unconstitutional because it could not validate any uniformity in how they were counted. The most important finding was that the unsigned 7-2 stated that a recount per curiam court’s regardless of how it was conducted would be unconstitutional as it could not be adequately finished to meet the deadline of December 12th under Title 3, U.S. Code, Section 5 of elector controversies while adhering to the equal protection and due process clause of the 14th amendment. The law states that any discrepancies as to who the electors of a state are must be solved at least six days in advance of when the electoral college meets to vote. With the Supreme ruling, the final official tally of popular vote became 2,912,790 for Bush and Court’s Florida’s
declared Gore the winner of Florida. However, by early next morning, the official tally changed to Bush and then later to undecided. At that time, Bush had 2,909,135 Florida votes to Gore’s 2,907,351. With both candidates receiving 48.8% of the states’ votes, Florida enacted an automatic recount of its electronic votes under its Election Code 102.141, which states that if the margin of victory is 0.5% or less, its accuracy must be verified. With the election’s results up in the air, intense legal debates proliferated. What became the central question was whether Florida’s votes could be legitimately verified. On November 9th, Al Gore requested the manual recount of votes in four Florida counties, yet two days later, the Bush campaign challenged under constitutional grounds. After a series of legal debates, the center of which revolved around whether the manual recount and the extension of the deadlines for counting the votes could be legally sustained, the Florida Supreme Court ruled that the manual recounts should continue and be counted in the official tally, a ruling that the Bush campaign appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. In Bush v. Gore, the U.S. Supreme Court gave a multi-faceted verdict on December 12th against the Florida Supreme Court’s prior ruling declaring that the manual recount of votes was unconstitutional because it could not validate any uniformity in how they were counted. The court’s most important finding was that the unsigned 7-2 per curiam stated that a recount regardless of how it was conducted would be unconstitutional as it could not be adequately finished to meet the deadline of December 12th under Title 3, U.S. Code, Section 5 of elector controversies while adhering to the equal protection and due process clause of the 14th amendment. The law states that any discrepancies as to who the electors of a state are must be solved at least six days in advance of when the electoral college meets to vote. With the Supreme Court’s ruling, the final official tally of Florida’s popular vote became 2,912,790 for Bush and
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