so says Chief Justice Rhenquist
Um no... so says the vote. Remember the recounts done by the papers? If the recount would have gone on as planned, Bush would have won.
The court simply said enough is enough. There were equal protection violations in the voting (agreed upon by SEVEN justices) and five said because the Florida Safe-Harbor provision says the vote had to be certified by the date of the SC opinion, the pre-recount vote should be declared official. The four in the minority said Florida should get another week to fix the equal protection problems and do an entirly new recount. Of course that might have ran smack against the safe-harbor law.
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