I've no doubt Democrats purposely screwed this up so they could blame the whole fiasco on Jeb Bush.
Once the Democrats sort out who their candidate will be, watch the whole machine turn on Jeb and use this as a campaign issue.
This is a preview to November and eventually to 2004. Unless the state courts get tough and tell the Democrats to go pound sand, watch for this rerun to appear in an election near you.
Gore almost successfully used the liberal SCOFLA to rewrite the state's election statutes to his benefit. Why not try it in a dozen or more other states?
Because the SCOTUS ruled that only the legislatures have the power to make the laws determining how electors are selected. Also, there is a federal law passed after the 1876 presidential election, that requires the states to use the procedures their legislatures have in place on election day to choose electors. SCOFLA (isn't that a descriptive acronym) was violating this federal law in two ways. First, it was usurping the plenary powers of the state legislature to determine how electors are selected; second, it was changing the law after the deadline for making changes in the law. SCOFLA claimed it was interpreting the Florida Constitution, but in the process it was violating both federal statutes and the US Constitution.