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173. Florida law didn't allow statewide vote count in 2000

I spent 15 years working on election campaigns in Florida under the election laws that were on the books in 2000. In 2000, Florida election law did not allow for a statewide count of the votes. That authority was delegated to the counties after the repugs stole the 1876 election in Florida in which all of the votes were counted in Tallahassee and resulted in a fraudulent vote count. In 2000 all candidates had the right to challenge vote totals in the counties that they disagreed with the county vote total. This is what the Gore campaign did. The Bush campaign never challenged any county vote totals because most of the uncounted votes were located in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, the largest and most heavily democratic voting counties in Florida. In a prime time public speech during the dispute, Al Gore offered to stop all legal proceedings if W would agree to a statewide count of the uncounted votes. W refused because he knew that counting all of the votes meant victory for Al Gore. When the Florida Supreme Court ruled to count the uncounted votes W went running to his father's cronies on the SCOTUS.