"[11] The Washington Post further stated that Tapper noted that "while some scenes and language are manufactured, 'a lot of dialogue is not invented, a lot of dialogue is taken from my book, other books and real life.' Former Vice President Al Gore officially lost the presidency on Dec. 12, 2000, when the U.S. Supreme Court effectively awarded Florida’s electoral votes to Texas Gov. "The state’s highest officials responsible for ensuring efficiency, uniformity, and fairness in the election failed to fulfill their responsibilities. As a result of the state's contract with Database Technologies, "173,000 registered voters in Florida were permanently wiped off the voter rolls. Despite its equal time approach, Recount is an underdog story, and thus a Democrat story. "[10], In an interview with CNN's Reliable Sources, director Jay Roach responded that the film, "wasn't 100 percent accurate, but it was very true to what went on. ", Warren Christopher, who was sent by Gore to supervise the recount, has objected to his portrayal in the film. Show full articles without "Continue Reading" button for {0} hours. In April 2007, it was announced that Sydney Pollack was going to be the film's director. The television film won three Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Television Movie and Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special for Roach, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film for Dern. Whoever wins the most votes in the state is awarded all 25 electoral votes. The Electoral College itself never meets as one body. So, could we see it again? An elector who votes for someone other than his or her candidate is known as a faithless elector. "[3], The 2001 book Stupid White Men and other books described efforts to deny black citizens in Florida the right to vote. [7] Mark Moorman of Het Parool, gave the film a rating of four stars on a scale of five, calling Recount an "amazing and funny reconstruction". In particular, from summer 1999 to spring 2000, Florida's voter list was subject to an unusually high number of problems. Connect with friends faster than ever with the new Facebook app. Meanwhile, there was a heavy backlash in the Cuban-American population against Democrats during the Elian Gonzalez dispute, during which Janet Reno, President Bill Clinton’s Attorney General, ordered the six-year-old Cuban refugee to be returned to Cuba. ', Baker agreed that the film exaggerated his rival's stance: "He's not that much of a wuss," said Matea Gold of the San Jose Mercury News.[12]. There, the conservative Cuban-American citizens called what they were doing “el voto castigo” — the punishment vote. Apart from the volatile politics of the region, the HBO documentary relates much of the recount drama. It tells the tale of 36 tumultuous days after the 2000 presidential election, when the world watched Florida counting and recounting ballots and attorneys for Bush and Gore argued in court over legal fine points of canvassing, verifying votes and certifying results. Roach cited All the President's Men as an example. The 2000 United States presidential election in Florida took place on November 7, 2000, as part of the nationwide presidential election. State results tallied on election night gave 246 electoral votes to Republican nominee Texas Gov… Gore conceded. It premiered on HBO on May 25, 2008. “The conventional wisdom at the time was that if a Democrat could win at least 30 to 35% of the Cuban-American vote, they’d win the state of Florida.”. It's basically impossible to watch HBO's "537 Votes" without thinking about Nov. 3. Never miss a story:  Subscribe to the Tallahassee Democrat using the link at the top of the page. “If it is not a rout for either candidate, it certainly increases the chance of chicanery.”. "[11], Florida Supreme Court spokesman Craig Waters agreed that the script departed from the actual statements he made on live television from the courthouse steps in the fall of 2000. Corben thinks we might. [7] Voters from reliably Democratic states in the Northeast had also been migrating to Florida since the 1950s. 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Palm Beach County Canvassing Board, Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2000_United_States_presidential_election_in_Florida&oldid=987493229, 2000 United States presidential election in Florida, 2000 United States presidential election by state, Articles with unsourced statements from February 2015, Articles to be expanded from October 2018, Articles containing potentially dated statements from November 2020, All articles containing potentially dated statements, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 7 November 2020, at 11:58. [8], On election day itself, the extent of the mix-ups in the electoral rolls was such that "in a number of precincts in Florida's inner cities, the polling locations were heavily fortified with police."[4]. Once again, Florida’s 29 electoral votes (four more than 20 years ago) are critical to the presidency and both parties are preparing for post-election legal disputes. As of the 2020 presidential election[update], this is the last election in which the Democratic candidate won Pasco County or Hernando County. Florida, a swing state, had a major recount dispute that took center stage in the election. In 2000, Florida was allocated 25 electors because it had 23 congressional districts and 2 senators. Photo courtesy of HBO. Instead, the electors from each state and the District of Columbia met in their respective capitols. [2] By August, weeks away from the start of principal photography, Pollack withdrew from the project due to a then-undisclosed illness. But in Miami-Dade County, film director Billy Corben sees it pretty much as the Elian election. Nonetheless, Republicans put significant advertising resources into the state, and later polls indicated that the state was very much in play as late as September 2000. In contrast, Bush legal advisers James Baker and Benjamin Ginsberg have largely given the film good reviews; Baker even hosted his own screening of it, though he does refer to the film as a "Hollywood rendition" of what happened. Written by Danny Strong and directed by Jay Roach, the television film stars Kevin Spacey, Bob Balaban, Ed Begley Jr., Laura Dern, John Hurt, Denis Leary, Bruce McGill, and Tom Wilkinson. Election fairness was a major problem known to Floridians in the 1990s; for example, the 1997 Miami mayoral election was tainted by scandal. According to the San Jose Mercury News, Christopher: .mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 40px}.mw-parser-output .templatequote .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;padding-left:1.6em;margin-top:0}, ... has not seen the film, but he read transcripts of scenes featuring his character, who is portrayed as a high-minded but naive statesman. Recount is a 2008 political drama television film about Florida's vote recount during the 2000 United States presidential election. The process was extremely divisive and led to calls for electoral reform in Florida. But not before South Florida’s exile community protested fiercely, demanding he be allowed to stay with relatives in Miami. Entertainment Weekly wrote, "Recount may not be downright blue, but it's not as purply as it wants to appear.

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