I agree - you dunno.
.Evidently in your deep studies of American elections you've never hoid-a automatic recount.
.That's when an election is soooo close that the state by it's own rules conducts a verification recount.
.What's not in the rules is that a state partisan hack official should stop the recount when the candidate she and her party are vested in winning is barely clinging to a shrinking lead.
Now um...we all know that Bush did not win the election. Even Pat Buchannan said no way he got all those votes in Palm county.
We show that the butterfly ballot used in Palm Beach County, Florida, in the 2000 presidential election caused more than 2,000 Democratic voters to vote by mistake for Reform candidate Pat Buchanan, a number larger than George W. Bush’s certified margin of victory in Florida. We use multiple methods and several kinds of data to rule out alternative explanations for the votes Buchanan received in Palm Beach County. Among 3,053 U.S. counties where Buchanan was on the ballot, Palm Beach County has the most anomalous excess of votes for him. In Palm Beach County, Buchanan’s proportion of the vote on election-day ballots is four times larger than his proportion on absentee (nonbutterfly) ballots
Now, that aside, when all possible review was concluded, The actual winner - Al Gore, graciously conceded so the nation could move on, and no sooner.....the nation attacked by terrorists.