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On December 11, 2000, the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral arguments in the case Bush v. Gore. The case focused on the results of the 2000 presidential election in Florida. George W. Bush and Al Gore both needed to win the state in order to win the presidency. When Bush had a slight lead, Gore requested manual recounts of so-called undervotes, where punch card ballots did not register a vote for president when they were run through the counting machines. In this excerpt, Justice Stephen Breyer asks Bush’s attorney, Theodore Olson, what he would consider a fair standard for manually recounting the ballots.
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