In the year 2000, George W Bush became the first president in more than 100 years to win the presidency and lose the popular vote.

In 2016, Donald Trump became the second.

Now what made both of those victories even possible

at the expense of the popular vote

was the Electoral College.

But in 2000, it wasn't just the Electoral College. It was also the Supreme Court. The 2000 election came down to the

state of Florida. The margin between Al Gore and George Bush was 537 votes, a number that remained staggering to this day.

And even though Al Gore had won the popular vote by half a million votes,

whether those 53700 votes in Florida did or did not get

counted would decide the race. And after a flurry of legal challenges and

appeals that decision ended up in the hands of the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court hasn't been asked to decide the election, but their decision just might do just that.

Here comes our runner.

Here comes our runner Matt Haas.

Reverse.

The decision's been reversed.

The U.S. Supreme Court has reversed the decision of the Florida Supreme Court.

Here we go. So me where to go. Several of the Florida Supreme Court.

Here we go.

Several of the justices take the time to write separately.

There's a dissent from Justice Breyer.

There's a separate dissent from Justice Ginsburg.

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