This land belongs to me...

[A Black Falcon]

Normally I'd let that slide, but I've heard it so often that I'm just not going to anymore. The Supreme Court voted to STOP THE RECOUNT. That made Bush the winner because every single time they recounted the votes Bush was still the winner. But Democrats wanted the votes to be counted for as many times as it took for Gore, somehow, to wind up with more votes which, according to an independent count taken after the election was over, would not have happened. And anyway, Florida LAW states that ballet recounts MUST be complete by December 12, which they were. And on that day Bush had the most votes. Plain and simple.

They stopped the recount before actually knowing how everyone voted. That's a fact. It's also pretty clear from everything I've heard that if they had actually done a full recount Gore would have had the more votes despite all the stunts the Republicans pulled to disenfranchise and discount Democratic votes. The majority-Republican Supreme Court couldn't have that, so the decision went to Bush. He won the presidency not by the actual votes of the citizens but by a 5-4 decision in the court.