BUSH V. GORE (2000)

Case facts

• December 8, 2000 Florida issued a manual recount for over 10,000 ballots 
• Problem with the electric voting machine; ballots were not punched in right
• Supreme Court found that the recount violated the 14th Amendment
• Explained the recounting procedure violated the Equal Protection Clause
• December 11, 2000 Was brought to the Supreme Court Bush v. Gore

Majority Opinion

• The supreme Court sided with George W. Bush