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On December 13, 2000, the Democratic candidate for President of the United States, Al Gore, accepted the decision of the majority of the justices of the Supreme Court that granted

the electoral victory in Florida by 537 votes to George W. Bush.

The then vice president had not accepted defeat on election night and asked for a recount of some disputed manual votes that were still being practiced in some counties of that state at that time.

The legal battle, which kept the country in suspense, d

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