But what about Bush v. Gore? Can this case be considered as anything more than a national embarrassment and one that, on its own, created a precedent for the alleged electioneering abused four years later?
Bartley contends that Bush v. Gore was a hard case and that respectable constitutional arguments can be found on both sides. If one is thinking about the case strictly in terms of 'hanging chads' and those other esoteric problems with the paper ballots, then the case would easily be seen as a matter of observable fact running into state election laws and might never have gotten to the Supreme Court. Obviously, then, there was more to it than that. Bartley notes that once the issues were taken to the Supreme Court, then additional factors were brought to light, including "gaps, and ambiguities in Florida law, federal law, and the Constitution" (Commentary 2005, p. 25+).
There was more to this case than that, although the extra facets were not adjudicated; instead, they form the societal context of the case. Commentary notes that they arose "out of controversies concerning core constitutional issues -- the boundaries of personal freedom and the contours of equality under the law" (Commentary, 2005, p. 25+). Commentary was doubtless thinking of the disenfranchisement of those who were personally incapable of properly punching or marking a ballot, people of any race who were careless or confused. However, at the time, there was also a great deal of information reported by the media contending that civil rights of protected groups, in this case, African-Americans, had been violated by various illegal polling place and/or police activities. Indeed, the common wisdom of those who supported...
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