The outcome of the 2000 presidential election was decided by a?

Question

A. majority of the popular vote
B. majority vote of the electoral college
C. decision of the Supreme Court
D. careful recount of the Flordia votes

Answer 1

Essentially the answer is C.

the Supreme Court of the United States in Bush v. Gore agreed 7-2 that there were possibly Equal Protection issues in using different standards of counting ballots in different counties. However, 2 of those 7, Justices Steven Breyer and David Souter, later decided that there wasn't a significant Equal Protection issue. Regardless, 5 of the 9 justices found that there was a significant Equal Protection issue and ordered that the recounts be stopped. Justice Ginsburg wrote a dissenting opinion, joined by Justices John Paul Stevens, Steven Breyer, and David Souter.

Technically you should say it was decided by the electoral college, who did cast the votes to elect GWB.

You can argue the technicalities of it all day long. The point is GWB was granted the Presidency per the electoral colleges votes.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DEEDB1338F931A25752C1A9679C8B63

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_v._Gore

Answer 2

According to the Constitution of the United States, the outcome of ALL presidential elections are decided by a majority vote in the electoral college.

Answer A is the "sucker answer". The sucker answers on tests are to see who never went to class or read the material, or is just marking answers at random. They're the answers that should get a person an F in the course just for choosing it.

D is factually wrong under the question, regardless of whether it is true or not. Had the recount changed the result for Florida, and impacted the result for Florida (which it did not), the answer would still be B, because the final decision in the election is up to the electoral college.

C would be another sucker answer, except that a lot of people have bought into the propaganda, and that might include your teacher. A reading of the actual opinions reveals that they made no such decision, they merely ordered the Supreme Court of Florida to comply with the laws of Florida and the US Constitution. Moreover, the decisions in both courts were actually moot to begin with. The procedure was for the Secretary of State to certify the results by a certain date, which had been done, and nothing in either court ever changed that; not to say they didn't try, but the certification was what it was, which (finally) left the final decision in the 2000 election in the hands of the electoral college.

*** SoCal actually read the opinions. It's over six and a half years since I first found them on the internet, and he's the first person to rereference them that obviously did so. If you think he's wrong, read them for yourself and see.

Answer 3

You've received some decent answers to your question, so I just add a few observations from an attorney's perspective.

A is obviously wrong for 2 reasons. First, the president is elected by the Electoral College as set forth in the Constitution. Each state has it's own rules as to how the electoral votes are cast based on the outcome of the popular vote in that state. Furthermore, Al Gore won the popular vote about 550,000 votes.

B is correctly because that is the procedure set forth in the Constitution.

C is incorrect. While the Supreme Court's decision stopped improper and illegal recounts, the decision is ultimately up the Electoral College. As correctly noted in the plurality opinion, the election officials doing the recount were just making up the rules for the recount as they went along. In any event, an audit by the USA Today showed that Bush still would have won Florida.

D is wrong because I don't there was any such thing as a careful recount in Florida at the time. It was an absolutely disaster.

Answer 4

B is the best answer. The other three supported or influenced the Electoral College vote.

Answer 5

Al Gore have been given each and every recount he asked for. He lost. era. The regulation says that the election ought to be sealed with the aid of a definite date. for the duration of that factor Gore did 3 recounts. while the Florida ideally suited courtroom tried to violate the regulation, the ideally suited courtroom intervened. He lost. era. recover from it.

Answer 6

The answer is B.

SCOTUS basically ruled upon an equal protection claim, and found it to be without merit.

Answer 7

by supreme court

Answer 8

It's 2007 so why is this important?

Answer 9

C obviously... Yes I took the "test".

Answer 10

d