Ray From Cleveland
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DId we mention that President Obama won twice? If not, I will mention it. President Obama won twice. Once in 2008 and once again in 2012.You idiots voted obuthole in twice , so yes you are willing.
So did George Bush.
He didn't win the first election.
He was appointed by the Supreme Court. 2 Judges sitting there were appointed by his father's administration.
And the state in dispute? His brother was governor and the secretary of state was his campaign manager.
First off his brother recused himself before anything even started. Secondly it's Al Gore's buddies that got him into trouble.
The Florida law was that all ballots had to be certified in seven days. If you want a recount, fine, recount and have the damn ballots certified in seven days.
The Florida courts decided they didn't like that law. So they created the Al Gore law which gave Gore as much time as he needed to find enough winning votes. Not only did that violate Florida's law, but in a recount, an equal count has to take place in both Democrat and Republican districts. The court allowed Gore to count only ballots in Democrat areas.
When the Supreme Court got a hold of the case, they sent it back to the Florida courts to explain their judicial legislation. That's why Bush won.
Ridiculous.
If the situations were reversed and the same thing happened for a Democrat? We'd be in the midst of a Civil War.
It's exactly what happened. Are you trying to tell me that Gore didn't get the courts permission to recount his ballots in only Democrat districts?
Florida Supreme Court appeals[edit]
Main articles: Palm Beach County Canvassing Board v. Harris (Harris I) and Gore v. Harris (Harris II)
Florida Supreme Court spokesman Craig Waters
The trial of Palm Beach Canvassing Board v. Katherine Harris was a response from the Bush campaign to state litigation against extending the statutory deadlines for the manual recounts. Besides deadlines, also in dispute were the criteria that each county's canvassing board would use in examining the overvotes and/or undervotes. Numerous local court rulings went both ways, some ordering recounts because the vote was so close and others declaring that a selective manual recount in a few heavily Democratic counties would be unfair.
Eventually, the Gore campaign appealed to the Florida Supreme Court, which ordered the recount to proceed. The Bush campaign subsequently appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States, which took up the case Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board on December 1. On December 4, the U.S. Supreme Court returned this matter to the Florida Supreme Court with an order vacating its earlier decision. In its opinion, the Supreme Court cited several areas where the Florida Supreme Court had violated both the federal and Florida constitutions. The Court further held that it had "considerable uncertainty" as to the reasons given by the Florida Supreme Court for its decision. The Florida Supreme Court clarified its ruling on this matter while the United States Supreme Court was deliberating Bush v. Gore.
Florida election recount - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia