Volume 47, Number 20 · December 21, 2000
The Phantom Poll Booth
By Ronald Dworkin
As I write, the extraordinary 2000 presidential election remains undecided, because it remains uncertain which candidate will receive Florida's twenty-five electoral votes. By the time this issue is published, the overseas ballots, the legal battles over manual recounts, or both, may finally have given Gore the presidency, or he may have conceded the presidency to Bush. Or the election may still be undecided, because recounts are continuing in Florida, or have been demanded in other states, or because lawsuits challenging the Florida electoral process, some of which have already been filed, are still pending. In any case, however, the election has raised a great number of new and perplexing legal and political issues, and it is important to confront these, for the future, whether or not the presidency still hinges on how they are decided.
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