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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Florida Sec'y of State said - game over, Bush wins.
Bunch of lawsuits filed - some local judges say - ignore the state law, start recounting.
SCOTUS for myriads of reasons - some federalist, others pragmatic, sides with the State.
As you are so much smarter than me, please explain what I am missing?
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Um.. what now? It's been awhile since I read it, but my recollection of Bush v. Gore is that SCOTUS said that a recount with out a uniform standard would violate equal protection.
It then concluded that there was no uniform, state-wide standard (despite the statutory "clear intent of the voter" language"), that there could be no recount.
In other words, SCOTUS found that you have a right to have your vote counted on the same basis as the person in the next county. What's federalist or "strict constructionalist" about that?
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