There's legal precedent for Florida judges to take corrective action if the will of the people (their votes) was thwarted. Which is how it should be. ---- http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/decision2000/lat_legal001110.htm # # Florida Judges Have Power to Upset Elections # # By DAVID G. SAVAGE and HENRY WEINSTEIN, Times Staff Writers # # # WASHINGTON--Florida's Supreme Court has given judges in the state # broad power to overturn an election if flawed ballots create # "reasonable doubt" that the outcome truly reflects "the will # of the voters." # # The law is not clear, however, on how to remedy such a mistake, # especially when a flawed ballot in one county might have changed # a statewide result--let alone possibly determine the outcome # of a national election for president of the United States. # # "We are in uncharted territory," said University of Florida Law # School Dean Jon Mills. Yet Democratic lawyers in Florida were # pointing Thursday to legal decisions that give them a basis for # going to court to challenge the outcome there because of ballot # confusion in Palm Beach County. # # In an opinion issued in 1998, the Florida Supreme Court said # that disputed elections can be voided even when there is no # evidence of fraud or vote stealing. The justices stressed that # election results should reflect the will of the voters. [snip]