The Presidential Race: The 2000 Presidential Election

It was the year 2000 and a new President is going to be elected. The Presidential race was between G.W. Bush and Al Gore. The race was awfully close, but Florida was still up for grabs. Whichever candidate wins Florida, wins the election. But was the election genuine? I feel as though the election was unjust. Since the vote was so close, with Bush leading with 1784 votes, Gore decided to concede. Before he was able to give his speech, his campaign workers stopped him just in time to remind him that if the win is under 30,000, a recount is to be put into action. With such information, they have them start the recount and noticed a fault in some of the ballots. There is something called a chad; the ballot is punched all the way through but is