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April 12, 2001

None Dare Call It Treason. Vincent Bugliosi writes for the Nation to help ensure that the US Supreme Court goes down in history as criminals for their, um, handling of the 2000 election. Some obvious points, some shots outside the domain of the issue, but ultimately a worthy recap.

If none of the undervotes were counted because of the various standards to count them, then to be completely consistent the Court would have had no choice but to invalidate the entire Florida election, since there is no question that votes lost in some counties because of the method of voting would have been recorded in others utilizing a different method.