2000 Election Watch: Florida voting machine dispute resolved

By GottaLaff

What year is this now? 2010? Let me put on my Memory Cap and think back to Election 2000. I really don't want to. It brings back nightmarish thoughts.

However:

The justices unanimously disagreed on that legal point and in a 5-2 vote upheld a provision banning the screens and establishing procedures for paper ballot voting. [...]

“It has a huge precedential value because it confirms the power of the people at the local level to ensure the accuracy of elections,” [Thomas D. Shults, a lawyer for the Sarasota Alliance for Fair Elections] said.

Now about the rest of the country and those Diebold machines....

H/t: PoliticalBee