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I was pretty young at the time, so my memory is hazy, but I thought there was more to this. Didn't they recount several times? What was going on that made it so difficult for them to count?
The ballots had "hanging chads" which are basically hole punches that failed to completely tear away from the ballot. Bush tried to claim that these ballots that weren't fully punched were invalid, his brother Jeb was governor of Florida of the time and agreed, so they basically 'recounted' until the got the winner that they wanted.
Thank you for such a clear explanation. As a non-American I've always been confused by the "hanging chad" thing. This has put so much context around it and made it super understandable.
Adding to the other guy's answer: Roger Stone staged a riot that stopped the final recount. Continuing violence and threats against election workers are more of the same shit from the exact same assholes.