The SC says:
"It is obvious that the recount cannot be conducted in compliance with the requirements of equal protection and due process without substantial additional work," the court majority said.
Hmmm.... I wonder what guarantees of equal protection have been in effect during the last 200 years most of which involved paper ballots which offer a slew of opportunities for miss marking, marking next to but "almost" out of the box, of mis-spelling names, etc. Where was the SC during this period with its SELECTIVE application of equal protection guarantees?
I'm appalled that the SC now deems it adviseable to set this precedent... from now on anyone can claim an election is unconstitutional UNLESS it can prove that it guarantees equal protection, the vote will really be counted. Given this ruling it seems obvious that those voters whose ballots were undercounted because of perforations, dust in the machine, etc., were NOT guaranteed equal protection because human beings were not permitted to examine the ballot by hand and make a "reasonable" judgment regarding voter intent, a process that has been going on in this country unimpeded for 200 years.
Truly the partisan action of the SC has in fact eroded confidence in the judiciary system of this country. |
