Bush. The election of this race would be a controversy over the “Florida fiasco.” Many Americans believed that the election was not legitimate because Al Gore should have won the 2000 presidential election. He had 500,000 more votes than Bush. He won the popular vote. The electoral vote gave Bush a small margin of victory. They believed the machine had counted the ballots incorrectly because the votes were too close together. Florida law mandates recounting ballots. The percentage of black voters was inaccurate. Florida's voting system misinterpreted noncriminals as criminals and appeared on the "felon list" so they could not vote. Millions of people were forced to vote at polling stations. Democrats called for a manual counting of ballots. Most Republicans were election officials and threw out overseas ballots because of the expiration date. This disqualified their ballots reducing votes for Al Gore. It reduced his chances of winning the 2000 presidential election. Ultimately the voting resulted in a 537-vote victory for Bush. This election was the first in US history in which the Supreme Court had final decision-making power