shs lead dropped to 193 votes. The Election of 2000 became the mostcontroversial one is history because of the recounts. The nation was divided on whetherthe ballots should have been recounted. Many of the ballots that were recounted werepaper punch cards. The machines that read the cards miss counted the votes becausemany cards were not fully punched. Election officials never had to examine undervotestherefore they did not have a uniform standard. There were no rules on how to count theundervotes that were not fully punched. The paper that is punched out of the card iscalled chad. On the ballots there was chad left hanging on the underside of the card. The issue of chad was mainly in three counties: Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, andBroward. Several thousand of the counties ballots were set aside because of chad. Someof the ballots left an indention rather than a hole along side the candidates name. Theelection officials did not know whether the voters were meaning to vote for the candidateor changed his or her mind. The small, perforated, rectangular plug, or chad, remainedattached but profaning and is described as pregnant or increasingly, as merely dimpled(Bonger 1). During the recounts Broward county did not count dimpled chad. Miami-Dade counted the dimpled chad as votes and Palm Beach counted some dimples,but not all. All three counties counted one, two, three corners, hanging, and swingingcorner chads.On December 9, 2000, just hours after the recounts of ballots in Miami-Dade,Palm Beach, and Broward the US Supreme Court accepted Governor Bushs plea totemporarily stop the counting of votes. He wanted the counting to stop until they had annew hearing. Bush got his new hearing on December 11th. The US Supreme Court heardoral arguments on what became known as Bush vs. Gore. The justices voted 7-2 that theFlorida Supreme Court was unconstitutional in its decision to recount the votes. Thedecision came shortly after 10 p...
