The Ellections

Title: The Ellections
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics | Words: 1999 | Pages: 8.5 (approximately 235 words/page)

The Ellections

There is scarcely a political question in America, Tocqueville observed, that doesn't turn sooner or later into a judicial one. Nowhere has that been truer than in Florida over the past two weeks. Going into the election, it looked like the presidency would be determined by the candidates' positions on issues such as prescription drugs and tax cuts. Now it seems likely to turn on how courts interpret obscure state election laws and arcane questions …showed first 75 words of 1999 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1999 total…in the end, both sides will have the right to at least present their case to the Supreme Court. And that fact should ensure that, no matter how acrimonious things become in Florida, the ultimate result is one that both sides — and, more crucially, the American people — accept as legitimate. "What's most important is the most obvious," says Boies. "A peaceful transfer of power in the largest, most stable democracy the world has ever known."

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