Who was the rightful winner of the 2000 election?

[opebo]

Confusing Butterfly Ballot + Disenfranchisement of Thousands of Blacks that Aren't Felons = Bush wins

One might even go so far as to say that Bush 'won power', but that the process was not precisely an 'election' in the internationally accepted sense of a democratic one.  His operatives manipulated the outcome effectively both before and after the 'election' day through, primarily, disenfranchisement as Harry points out.

Of course this is par for the course.  In fact the course itself - the electoral college - is designed to favour right-wing candidates.

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No, it's designed the way it is to stop the people from making decisions,because the founding fathers didn't trust the American public. There was no left or right wing back then.

There may have been no left-wing, but the founding fathers were clearly very similar to what we would think of as right-wing extremists today.  Your example of devising a system to 'stop the people from makin decisions' is a perfect example - they were well aware that democracy is highly dangerous to property and privilege.