The only important fact you could argue was left out , was that Gore ' s camp was asking for specific areas to be recounted . So he was also hoping to skirt Florida law which required a recount everywhere based on the narrow margin of victory . If Gore ' s camp had got their wish , and only the areas he thought would put him over the top were recounted , he still would have lost . If that ' s the whole lot of information you think I deliberately left out , I didn ' t think it was all that relevant . More relevant would be Greg Palast ' s coverage and his investigations I think he worked for the BBC at that time into the voting machines , and the mostly African American FL voters who found out their votes were wrongly rejected not counted if they had the same name as other citizens who had committed felonies . Or the unusual number of votes thrown out in predominantly African American counties due to voting machine problems . areas that were expected to vote overwhelmingly for the Democrats . There ' s a lot of information out there , and I can ' t write a novel with every post . If you feel strongly about it , feel free to add the important part that you believe I left out .