Florida 2000 Vote: Not The Greens' Fault

As a registered Green I caught a lot of flack from my Democrat friends over the 2000 election in Florida. As a Floridian I caught a lot flack from the rest of the country over the 2000 election in Florida. I would like to set the record straight. Gore won in Florida in 2000. After the Supreme Court appointed George W. Bush as President the Media Consortium completed the recount of the votes. What was found was that had the recount been finished Gore would have won. The Consortium counted ALL the votes. As certified by Katherine Harris, Bush won Florida by 537 Votes. The recount, which included votes not previously counted such as hanging chads and votes found after certification showed a net gain for Gore of 644 votes which means Gore won by 107 votes. Ironically if just the hanging and dimpled chads had been recounted ( as Gore to some degree was pushing for) it would have only widened Bush's margin of victory but a straight up recount (as Bush advocated) would have resulted in a Gore victory. Clearly there should have been a recount as the margin of victory was smalller than the margin of error. What the Supreme Court should have done was rule as to what the recount should have been not just appoint a president. Don't blame the people of Florida for the outcome. Most of us voted for Gore. The Supreme Court threw out our votes.