Facts/Details:
1. The Supreme court voted and ended up as a 5-4 vote with the majority consisting of the courts most conserative justices.
2. The courts rationale was ambitious and weak.
3. On November 21, the Florida Supreme Court interpreted state law to require the Secretary of State to extend the statutory deadline for a manual recount.
4. In seeking certiorari, Bush raised three federal challenges to the decision of the Florida Supreme Court.
5. On December 8, the Florida Supreme Court ruled, by a vote of 4 to 3, that a manual recount was required by state law, and it thus accepted Gore's contest.
6. On December 9, the Supreme Court issued a stay of the decision of the Florida Supreme Court.
7. Ballots differ from county to county. Some countries use a version of the controverial "butterfly ballot".
8. Citizens in Alabama use different machinery from that used by citizens in New York.
9. In the 1960s and 1970s, there was an effort to use the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses to try to ensure more rule-bound decisions.
Post reading questions:
1. Do the machines still miss some votes or is it 100% accurate now?
2. Was it bad if the majority of the Supreme Court were mostly conserative judges?
3. The Supreme Court had no precedent, did this make it harder or easier to make a decision?
4. Why doesn't the United States just make it so all the voting cards/booths were all the same?
5. How much of an effect did minimalism have in the election?
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