JBeukema
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When all ballots were recounted by hand, there were more votes for Gore than for Bush.
ONLY if it includes ballots with errors on them. Should incomplete ballots be considered votes?
In the first full study of Florida's ballots since the election ended, The Miami Herald and USA Today reported George W. Bush would have widened his 537-vote victory to a 1,665-vote margin if the recount ordered by the Florida Supreme Court would have been allowed to continue, using standards that would have allowed even faintly dimpled "undervotes" -- ballots the voter has noticeably indented but had not punched all the way through -- to be counted.
It's called 'voter intent' and which the standard for our democracy until the elections were computerized and privatized.
Not that it even matters who won- the fact of the matter is that SCOTUS assumed a victor when none was known and prevented the count. That core issue remains regardless of the outcome.