The main problem with Gore’s gerry-mandered recount was that Miami delayed its count precisely long enough not to recount the Spanish neighborhoods which leaned to Bush and, mirabile dictu, the Florida Supremes upheld something that outlandishly illegal, that violated Florida Statute which the Florida Supremes simply ignored. The main basis for the Federal Supremes saying “can’t do” was because this was so patently contrived, self-serving, discriminatory against the descendants of former slaves (by democratic Southern politicians no less) and expressly forbidden by long-standing Florida statute. All the real logic of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling based on these facts, which was eminently correct, was of course missing from the movie, but who cares about truth when the pretend cover story that the Democrats have convinced themselves of is so much more interesting.
