In the US presidential election, 2000, in which US state was there a controversy over requests for hand recounts of votes that went as far as the U.S. Supreme Court?
History of Florida of the state's population, while numbering 231,209 persons. Florida became the battleground of the controversial 2000 US presidential election which took place on November 7, 2000. The count of the popular votes was extremely close, triggering automatic recounts. These recounts triggered accusations of fraud and manipulation, and brought to light voting irregularities in the state. Subsequent recount efforts degenerated into arguments over mispunched ballots, "hanging chads", and controversial decisions by the Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris and the Florida Supreme Court. Ultimately, the United States Supreme Court ruled in "Bush v. Gore" to end all recounts, allowing Secretary of
2000 United States presidential election in New Hampshire of the 2000 Presidential Election. George W. Bush defeated Al Gore in New Hampshire, by a narrow 7,211 votes, in the midst of one of the closest elections in US history. Had Gore won the state, New Hampshire's electoral college votes would have swung the national election in his favor. The 2000 election was the last time that a Republican presidential candidate won New Hampshire or any state in New England, though Donald Trump did win an electoral vote from Maine in 2016. New Hampshire would vote for Democrats John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election and Barack Obama in