Florida Recount

The ugliest election The ugliest election

From the overly decorous Gore team to the bought-and-paid-for Supreme Court, HBO's enraging docudrama shows the Florida recount like it was.
By Gary Kamiya May 23, 2008

  • January 20? But that's forever from now!

    The economy stinks, the war goes on, and Bush is still here; do we really have to wait until January 20?
    By Gabriel Winant November 14, 2008

  • What was Charlie Crist thinking?

    Why did a Republican governor just add tens of thousands of Democrats to the voter rolls in Florida?
    By Farhad Manjoo April 6, 2007

  • Mexico 2006: Florida all over again?

    Members of Mexico's losing leftist party are invoking America's recent electoral scandals to convince the world that last Sunday's presidential election was fixed.
    By Eliza Barclay July 8, 2006

  • Florida, again

    The 2004 presidential race could turn on the Sunshine State, just as it did in 2000. And the early evidence suggests Bush is in big trouble.
    By Tim Grieve March 9, 2004

  • The Texas stalemate: It's all about race

    Few are saying it openly, but the DeLay-Rove power grab in Austin is all about keeping white control of an increasingly Hispanic state.
    By Michelle Goldberg September 3, 2003

  • The future face of American justice

    If the Supreme Court justices who handed Bush the presidency retire during his term, not only will they spark a virtual civil war, they'll destroy the integrity of the high court.
    By Joseph M. Birkenstock June 13, 2003

  • Will John Ashcroft really probe Florida's voter purge lists?

    A day after the Justice Department announced lawsuits over Florida's 2000 presidential vote, Democrats remain skeptical about whether the suits will touch on the most explosive issues.
    By Anthony York May 23, 2002

  • And the winner was?

    The Miami Herald's tally of Florida undervotes fails to yield a clear victor -- yet another reason the Gore team should have actually tried to "count every vote."
    By Jake Tapper April 4, 2001

  • The Florida recount continues!

    And according to the latest numbers, Bush has regained a narrow lead.
    By Anthony York January 17, 2001

  • Gore moves ahead in Florida recount

    If you count dimpled chads plus the votes the Florida Supreme Court gave him, the vice president is leading Bush by 96 votes in the latest tallies.
    By Anthony York January 3, 2001

  • The media moves in

    As the press begins to recount ballots in Florida, the Republicans cry foul.
    By Eric Boehlert December 22, 2000

  • Never say die

    With Al Gore poised to concede, some Florida Democrats are urging him to fight on.
    By Jake Tapper December 13, 2000

  • The beginning of the end

    Monday's legal double whammy should turn out the lights for Al Gore.
    By Bruce Shapiro December 5, 2000

  • As the wheels of justice turn

    Despite Judge Sanders Sauls' best efforts, the case over the Miami recount drags into Sunday.
    By Jake Tapper December 2, 2000

  • How manual recounts helped Bush

    In some Florida counties, election officials voluntarily hand-counted ballots that machines couldn't read -- exactly what Gore wants in Miami-Dade -- and the governor came out ahead.
    By Anthony York November 28, 2000

  • The votes not counted

    The Bush team will call it fuzzy math, but here's how Gore backers add up the ballots for their man -- and how they hope to convince the courts they're right.
    By Jake Tapper November 26, 2000

  • Where are the Democratic fire-breathers?

    Gore's party has been no match for the victory-or-death Republicans.
    By David Talbot November 25, 2000

  • In machines we trust:

    If Bush is right that human beings are incapable of counting votes, how can we rely on them to govern us?
    Read by Scott Rosenberg November 17, 2000

  • In machines we trust

    If Bush is right that human beings are incapable of counting votes, how can we rely on them to govern us?
    By Scott Rosenberg November 16, 2000

  • The disappearing ballots of Duval County

    More than 22,000 were tossed out in this Republican stronghold, but most of them were cast in minority, Democratic neighborhoods, and the Gore camp is crying foul.
    By Eric Boehlert November 13, 2000

  • The cyber-battle for Florida

    Attacks on political Web sites and online petitions are proliferating like crazy -- and completely irrelevant.
    By Andrew Leonard November 13, 2000

  • Let the hand count continue

    Why are Bush's people defending the sovereign right of machines to count votes? Because they're afraid they'll lose their narrow edge if all Florida's ballots are counted.
    By Bruce Shapiro November 12, 2000

  • Everything you need to know about the Florida recount

    Hanging chads! Overvoting! A crash course in the Sunshine State electoral idiosyncrasies that could determine our next president.
    By Anthony York and Eric Boehlert November 11, 2000

  • Can this election be saved?

    As lawyers swarm to Palm Beach, the legal questions surrounding Florida's vote only multiply.
    By Bruce Shapiro November 9, 2000
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