[Chris_Shugart]

I don't want to be over-melodramatic but what concerns me is the possibility of some lawyers being able to successfully get enough judges to keep the election from being certified. Imagine Flordia 2000 happening again, except in a dozen states, not just one. I'm not an alarmist by nature, but the possibility of an uprecented number of legal challenges to this election has me, frankly a little worried. If the courts can prevent or at least postpone the outcome of the election, this in my mind could be a pretext to civil war. Is my anxiety justified?

[NCC-1701]

The up-side to your theory is that W would be president for as long as those thugs want to draw out the process. Good for Bush, a nightmare for Lurch/Oppie team.

[Dont Mention the War]

I don't want to be over-melodramatic but what concerns me is the possibility of some lawyers being able to successfully get enough judges to keep the election from being certified. Imagine Flordia 2000 happening again, except in a dozen states, not just one. I'm not an alarmist by nature, but the possibility of an uprecented number of legal challenges to this election has me, frankly a little worried. If the courts can prevent or at least postpone the outcome of the election, this in my mind could be a pretext to civil war. Is my anxiety justified?

Remember that Congress is empowered to throw out any state's officially-submitted EVs, if they deem them to be tainted. If the BS gets too deep, Congress picks the president. And given the current makeup of the House, that means Bush wins.