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Gore gets voted as the official president. That was correct until they started counting the ballets in Florida and realized how close it was. At night, everyone thought that Gore was their president and in the morning, they woke up with Bush as their president.
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Florida's votes were recounted after the allowed time had already past for the votes to be in. The Supreme Court steps in to review the legal conflics that arose from all of the confusion.
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The Supreme Court devised a plan to recount all ballots in the state of Florida.
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The 14th Amendment about the Equal Protection Clause made the recount unfair. The Court had a 5-4 vote to put a stop to the recounting in Florida.
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The 5-4 vote was speculated to have been a political decision, not a judicial decision. People worried the Courts had gone too far with their involvement, while others were releaved that the stress was now over.
