Reply #131: It was 7-2

[DangerDave921]

Remember, the Florida Court had only ordered recounts of under votes, not all the votes in the entire state. That was the issue before the SCOTUS. And on a 7-2 vote, the Court held that the Florida Court had erred in ordering such a recount. It was a violation of equal protection because there were no uniform standards as to how votes would be counted. In other words, a ballot may be counted as a vote in one county, but the same ballot would not be counted as a vote in the neighboring county. By a 5-4 vote, the Court essentially closed down the recount because there was no time to complete such a recount and have the votes certified by the date required.

Will we ever know who truly won Florida? No. But Gore fought it, he had his day in court, and we have to live with that.