Complex sentence: He is notable as the judge who refused a new recount during the 2000 U.S. Presidential election on the grounds that the Constitution stated that an election must be held everywhere on the same day, not just in one area.
Split into simpler sentences: He is notable as the judge who refused a new recount during the 2000 U.S. Presidential election. He refused the descrepency on the grounds that the Constitution stated that an election had to be held everywhere on the same day, not just in one area.