The United States federal court held a hearing on the lawsuit filed by the Republican camp to stop manual counting of votes. After the meeting, the federal judge announced that the court rejected the Republican lawsuit, and Bush's plan to stop manual vote counting in Florida was frustrated.

Republicans have been trying to stop the recount. They think it is unconstitutional to recount the votes in four states dominated by the Democratic Party, while the Democratic Party thinks it is necessary to recount the votes because thousands of votes have statistical errors due to computer system failures.

According to unofficial statistics, Republican presidential candidate Bush leads Democratic candidate Gore by about 300 votes in Florida, and Florida's 25 electoral votes will ultimately determine the final ownership of the current US presidential candidate.