In June, 2000, George W. Bush was elected as the 54th (43rd) president of the United States of America as the Republican presidential candidate, defeating the Democratic presidential candidate Albert Gore. In June 2006, he was sworn in, 5438+0, and officially moved into the White House.
The 2000 US presidential election was one of the closest elections in American history. The two main candidates are the governor of Texas, Republican candidate George W. Bush, and then US Vice President and Democratic candidate Al Gore.
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Florida voting dispute
American states have different ballot designs. In this election, the votes of the two parties in many States are close, and almost all the States with close votes of the two major parties have invalid votes. In this election, the problem of invalid votes is particularly prominent in Florida.
The election results in this state can affect the presidential election. Florida's "butterfly-shaped split ballot" design will make voters choose the wrong candidate because of the dislocation of circle elections, and voters who intend to vote for Gore may mistakenly vote for Pat Buchanan, a conservative reformist party.
The results show that Bush leads Gore by less than 2,000 votes, and 6 million overseas votes are not counted. Because the gap between the votes of the two sides is too small, Florida law requires automatic machine counting. After the first recount, Bush's lead narrowed to less than 1000 votes.
The Democratic camp believes that there is hope to turn the situation around, so it requires manual vote counting in several counties on the grounds that Florida's ballot design misled voters.
In June 165438+ 10 1, the Republican camp filed a lawsuit in the federal district court in southern Florida, demanding that the manual counting of votes be prohibited in palm beach and other counties, but it was rejected by the federal judge. Later, Florida Secretary of State and Republican Harris ordered that, according to Florida election law, the ballot results must be submitted within two days, that is, before 1 1.05, otherwise all ballots will be invalid. The Democratic camp began to file a lawsuit, demanding that the vote count be postponed.
However, the judge of the Florida District Court rejected the request of the Democratic camp and gave the decision to Florida Secretary of State Harris (Republican). The Secretary of State refused to accept the incomplete manual vote count, but was blocked by the Florida Supreme Court. The Florida Supreme Court agreed to manually count the votes, and the time for Florida to announce the election results was postponed to165438+1October 26th.
Generally speaking, the two sides first went to the Florida Supreme Court. When the court ruled in favor of Gore, Bush refused to accept it and appealed to the US Supreme Court. The Federal Supreme Court first returned the case to the Florida Supreme Court for retrial. After supporting Gore again, Florida Supreme Court stepped in and made a final judgment.
Bush camp lawyers pointed out that Florida's manual recount violated the equal protection clause of the Constitution 14 Amendment, because some machines counted votes and some people counted votes manually, which was unfair. Lawyers for Gore's camp asked the Federal Supreme Court to uphold the Florida Supreme Court's decision.
On February 65438+February 12, the US Supreme Court overturned the Florida Supreme Court's judgment by a narrow majority of five to four, requiring Florida to complete the statewide vote counting with unified standards before the February 18 electoral college vote, and did not extend the deadline for completing the vote counting six days before the electoral college vote, that is, there were only two hours left before the judgment, so Florida had to give up manpower.
Afterwards, according to the average number of votes of candidates from all parties in the state, Nader's probability of getting such high votes in several counties with extremely high green party votes in Florida is extremely low, which shows that the problem of wrong votes does exist.
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