After the 2000 election the Supreme Court ruled that a candidate could not choose which precincts would be recounted. A recount had to include all votes equally. The Legislature had to standardize voting and recounting throughout an entire state. How a recount would be held would not be an administrative or judicial decision but a legislative decision.
10 years later Tammany Hall still runs the elections in New York City. In spite of the fact that they are well represented on the US Supreme Court, New Yorkers do not believe that Supreme Court decisions apply to them. Californians have the same opinion.
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The winner of the popular vote lost the election. The most unusual aspect was the involvement of the Florida Supreme Court and the US Supreme Court in the adjudication of irregular votes that could have changed the result of the election.
In Bush v Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000), the United States Supreme Court, in a per curiam decision, ruled that the Florida Supreme Court's method for recounting ballots was a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth (14th) Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Additionally, the Court ruled that noalternative method could be established within the time limits set by the State of Florida. Three concurring justices also held that the Florida Supreme Court had violated Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution, by misinterpreting Florida election law that had been enacted by the Florida Legislature.
President George W. Bush in Bush v. Gore,(2000).
Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist presided over the Court in 2000. President Nixon appointed Rehnquist to the Supreme Court as an Associate Justice in 1972, and President Reagan elevated him to Chief Justice in 1986. Rehnquist lead the Court until his death in 2005.
The US Supreme Court ruled that the recount was unconstitutional.
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The Supreme Court does not have the power to appoint a president. You are probably referring to the election of 2000 when a portion of the Supreme Court denied another recount in Florida where the election was close . Florida's votes went to George W. Bush and he needed them to win the election. Later recounts seemed to indicate that Bush won, but some still say the election was decided by the court. Or in 1876, a panel which included five Supreme Court Justices and 10 Congressmen ruled on the credentials of several electors and ruled all the disputes in favor of Rutherford Hayes, giving him the election. Both Bush and Hayes lost the popular vote.
the Supreme Court halted the recount in Florida
The U.S. Supreme CourtAnswerthe supreme court of americathe Supreme Court halted the recount in Florida
The Supreme Court played a major role in determining the winner.
The Supreme Court played a major role in determining the winner.
The Democrats disputed the vote count and appealed to state supreme court which ordered a recount. An appeal was made to to the US Supreme Court which ruled against another recount. There were many side angles about election irregularities and decisions over which ballots were spoiled and which were legal. The phrase "hanging chad" was heard for awhile.
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Bush v. Gore, 531 US 98 (2000)
The winner of the popular vote lost the election. The most unusual aspect was the involvement of the Florida Supreme Court and the US Supreme Court in the adjudication of irregular votes that could have changed the result of the election.
The first US Presidential election that required US Supreme Court intervention was in 2000, when the Court was called upon to render a decision about Florida election procedure in the case Bush v. Gore, (2000).As a result of the Supreme Court's decision, Florida was forced to stop recounting ballots, resulting in George W. Bush winning the popular vote and all of Florida's electoral votes, awarding Bush the presidency.