# Recap Election 2000 for me... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 22, 2003, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recap-election-2000-for-me/150147 "2003-01-22T03:56:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recap-election-2000-for-me/150147/1 "2003-01-22T03:56:18Z")
I’m probably picking at a scab wound better left unopened, but this has been eating at me: I missed something because I was travelling outside the country, and I’ve been hesitating to ask, but… When I left the country, IIRC, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the issue about the Florida election, how many counties to recount, etc. But, IIRC, the SUpreme Court suddenly decided NOT to hear the case afterall. Am I correct? What exactly happened to bring the Election 2000 fiasco to some definite resolution? Boy, and to think we feared the Y2K bug! - Jinx 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recap-election-2000-for-me/150147/2 "2003-03-19T01:07:06Z")
Well… I guess I stumped all the SDopers! Cecil, what do I win??? - Jinx ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recap-election-2000-for-me/150147/3 "2003-03-19T01:09:29Z")
Perhaps a mod could come by and move this thread to the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![Bob55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Bob55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob55)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recap-election-2000-for-me/150147/4 "2003-03-19T01:22:26Z")
[Here](http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/handouts/election2000topics.html) is a summary, but I’m not sure how unbiased it is. From my own memory I recall that the basic fight was Gore wanted recounts in only certain counties - dense with democrats - where statistically he’d gain votes. On top of that, the people counting the votes were using different methods (chads, anyone?). The Supreme Court ruled that if there’s a recount, it must be of the entire state, not just specific counties. They also said the recount method must be exactly the same. But since the order was given 2 hours before the Dec 12 deadline, there was no time for a recount of the entire state. But read that summary, they say it better than me! ---
**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recap-election-2000-for-me/150147/5 "2003-03-19T01:24:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by 5 time champ \* > \*\*Perhaps a mod could come by and move this thread to the Pit. \*\* Excuse me, are you like the head of the Republican Party? I am asking a factual question, but I was humble enough to put it in the IMHO Board. Why does it deserve the Pit? I was not venting until now! 😛😛😛 - Jinx ---
**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recap-election-2000-for-me/150147/6 "2003-03-19T01:27:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bob55 \* > \*\*…there was no time for a recount of the entire state. But read that summary, they say it better than me! \*\* Thanks for your help, Bob55…that’s all I was asking! Personally, I think they should have named those doo-hickeys “Jeb” instead of “Chad”!!! - Jinx ---
**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recap-election-2000-for-me/150147/7 "2003-03-19T01:36:05Z")
Hmm, what is it with Republicans and deadlines? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![look\_ninjas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@look\_ninjas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/look_ninjas)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recap-election-2000-for-me/150147/8 "2003-03-19T01:38:44Z")
Maybe they wanted to move this thread to the Pit in advance, before the arguing begins in earnest. Although it doesn’t look like anyone’s arguing yet. I don’t know. I was in the country, and I still don’t quite know why they didn’t just do the stupid recount. But it’s a bit late now. Hopefully, it won’t happen again. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recap-election-2000-for-me/150147/9 "2003-03-19T01:55:12Z")
And [here’s](http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will112102.asp) a quick recap from George Will. His conclusion: > [@](#): > > The mantra of some Gore supporters is that President Bush was “selected, not elected.” But from the moment that Gore’s litigation achieved its aim of triggering the activism of Florida’s Supreme Court, the country was condemned to a process in which finality would be enforced by that court or the U.S. Supreme Court. > > Gore could have become president only if a seven-justice majority of the U.S. Supreme Court had flinched from finding constitutional infirmity in rules made up on the fly by Florida’s court. That is, Gore could have become president only by being selected by the Florida court’s improvisations that supplanted statutes – improvisations that even included ordering the review of certified results from counties whose results had not been contested, and which were not parties to the litigation. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recap-election-2000-for-me/150147/10 "2003-03-19T03:40:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jinx \* > \*\*Excuse me, are you like the head of the Republican Party? I am asking a factual question, but I was humble enough to put it in the IMHO Board. Why does it deserve the Pit? I was not venting until now! 😛😛😛 > > - Jinx \*\* No, I should have added a:) a:D or even an:eek: I meant that 2000 election threads have the propensity to become train wrecks.