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  • 2021-01-05 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Al Gore Certify Election Results of Bush's Victory? (en)
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  • On Jan. 5, 2020, the day before Congress would meet to count and certify U.S. President-elect Joe Biden's presidential victory, President Trump posted a message on Twitter falsely claiming that Vice President Mike Pence could overturn the election results by rejecting fraudulently chosen electors: The vice president does not have the authority to reject a state's chosen electors. As we explored in a previous article, Pence's role is to oversee the counting of votes (which have already been certified in all 50 states), not to determine their validity. On social media, people pointed to a historical example of a vice president overseeing a controversial election to emphasize this point. The 2000 presidential contest between Al Gore and George W. Bush, for instance, was decided by just five electoral college votes after a hotly contested recount in Florida. Gore, who was serving as vice president at the time, also won the popular vote. If a vice president had the power to reject a state's electors, the internet argued, wouldn't Gore have overturned Florida's electoral college votes and claimed victory for himself? Gore, like Pence, did not have the authority to do so. As vice president, Gore's role was merely to oversee the count and announce the winner, which he did on Jan. 5, 2001: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4933328/user-clip-gore-certifies-bush-victory It should also be noted that several Democrats attempted to object to Florida's electoral college votes. As these objections were not accompanied by a signature from members of both the House and the Senate, as required by law, Gore dismissed these complaints. The New York Times wrote at the time: The full video of Gore presiding over the certification of the presidential election he lost can be seen on C-SPAN. Below is a 20-minute clip of Gore hearing and dismissing objections to his election loss: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4933341/user-clip-gore-rejects-vote-objections (en)
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