Aside from this there are 500 of the best lawyers in the country looking over their shoulders. Bush s team is looking for evidence of tampering and fraud, of which there is an overabundance, and Gore s team is looking for extra ballots, of which their are none . Gore s campaign has been adamant in their claim that they only want to insure that the will of the people is carried out. The only people they are referring to, however, are those who might have voted for him, had they done it correctly. To suggest that the butterfly ballot might have actually confused people or the concept of punch-cards explains the existence of the Electoral College.
People simply can t cast a ballot by themselves.
Gore s cronies insist that he is the rightful heir of the White House because he won the so-called popular vote, a misleading concept. Both campaigns sought to collect the highest number of electoral votes, not popular votes. So Gore s achievement is irrelevant to the contest. Perhaps Gore would have won a true popular anyway, but this is merely a case of partial equilibrium in which one changes one aspect of the rules to achieve an outcome that is dubious on its face. Had both men sought after the true popular vote, it would have been an entirely different ballgame.