And I would not even DARE to suggest that the Gorons were acting in good faith.
But a dispute over Florida's electors arose, albeit through bad faith on the part of Gore and his minions. That's unfair, and bad for the country.
But Madison and Jefferson presumed bad faith in the conduct of public affairs on occasion - that's why they wrote the Constitution they did.
That's why the electoral votes are submitted, sealed, to the President of the Senate.
That's why they are opened in the presence of the People's and the States representatives, all in the same room.
That's why they count them together, and vote on controversies.
The Supreme Court deciding this case was bad politics and bad law.
Your opinion is borne of the faith that things should work as you learned in school. I am not so sanguine.
I guess I will defer to Scalia's opinion, rather than yours. I understand your position, but I just don't think it would have worked the way you assume it would have. I think Scalia and some of the other justices realized it, too.