In other news that is not fake like the above story, Al Gore knew he lost Florida in 2000, but had his lawyers try to work the system to change the result.
All Al Gore demanded was a manual recount -- which is allowed under Florida state law when the vote is close.
Gore won the vote, he lost to the defective voting machines. The world would be a very different place. "In the second survey, the Palm Beach Post examined 4,513 dimpled "undervotes" - so named because no hole was punched in the ballot paper - and which were excluded from the November and December manual recount process. In each case, the Palm Beach county canvassing board ruled that no vote had been cast on these ballots but Democratic or Republican observers disputed the ruling. The ballots in the survey had been set aside for a possible court-ordered review that never took place. Of the disputed ballots, some 2,500 had dimples for Mr Gore, while 1,818 had similar marks for Mr Bush. If they had been counted, Mr Gore would have had a net gain of 682 votes. "
He only asked for recount in deep blue counties. Had he asked for a complete State recount it would have taken away the ruling of the US Supreme Court. They concluded that recounting only some votes is unfair to counties that were not included in the recount So Gores attempt to steal the election by only recounting Blue counties ended up being the cause of his legal loss In a per curiam decision, the Court first ruled 7–2 (Justices Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg dissenting), strictly on equal protection grounds, that the recount be stopped. Specifically, the use of different standards of counting in different counties violated the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution
Yes, Gore won the vote but not the count. Punch card voting machines are crap when they don't make a hole.