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Monday, October 18, 2004

Coming of the Storm

George Will writes in Newsweek about how Bush v. Gore may pave the way for mammoth court battles to determine the Presidency this election:

the parties might unleash thousands of lawyers, each clutching a copy of Bush v. Gore, to ferret out "equal protection" violations in every closely contested state. Consider the use of different voting systems—electronic touchscreens, punch cards, etc.—in different jurisdictions of a particular state. All systems are fallible, and different systems have different error rates. Does that mean that "equal protection" is denied when different systems are used? What if the distribution of the different systems within the state means that errors have a "disparate impact" on minorities?
Unless one side or the other wins a landslide, I expect that it will be very interesting (in the Chinese? Curse sense).

1 Comments:

Blogger Man of Issachar said...

don't worry by 2050 you will have to explain to you grand kids that we used to just elect the president without the lawyers.

10/19/2004 08:24:00 PM  

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