The American Spectator : The Spectacle Blog : Florida in 2000 Was Nothin'

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If the public polling turns out to be wrong and we end up with an election result that is within the margin of litigation, things could get uglier than we've ever seen before. Even in 2000. Or so says Mike Carvin, a former Justice Department official who represented the Bush/Cheney campaign in Bush v. Gore.

"If this election is at all close, the litigation needed to straighten it out will dwarf anything we saw in Florida in 2000," Carvin said in a statement. "We've already seen challenges to the failure to count military ballots in Virginia and to exclude legitimate Republican poll watchers in Philadelphia. Coupled with the enormous validation problems caused by ACORN's dubious registrations, record turnout, new voting technology, and the provisional ballot provisions of the Help America Vote Act, we could see systemic post-election litigation challenges even where one candidate is tens of thousands voters ahead in a particular state. So both sides may be very active today in challenges to ineligible voters and machine malfunctions, and in efforts to extend polling hours. An early signal on how litigious things will get may be whether the Obama campaign in Virginia will actually support excluding the votes of military service personnel because they were not provided timely ballots."

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Julie Stoner| 11.4.08 @ 2:31PM

Today history was made. Never before has this been experienced on American soil. But it is definitely a taste of what is to come if Obama is elected. My 66 year old mother almost didn't vote today. Not because she is apathetic. She has been diligently volunteering at the McCain/Palin campaign headquarters in her city of Pensacola, FL. It's not because she doesn't know the issues. It's not because she thinks it's a no-win situation. It is because, for a split second, she questioned if her safety was worth her vote. You read correctly - her safety. When she pulled into her designated voting location, she was "greeted" by a carload of Muslims dressed in full Muslim attire. Just sitting there, sternly staring her down as she pulled in. Her first thought was to leave without voting - she did not want to be another victim of another bombing. But then patriotism kicked in - it was her RIGHT as an American citizen - to vote for the the candidate of HER choice. With determination, she parked her car and went inside. Seeing an officer inside, she reported the incident - better safe than sorry. The officer informed her that a patrol car had already been dispatched to take care of it and that groups of them had been going to the various voting locations and just parking - intimidating voters. And although the police make them leave the location, they had just been going to another location and doing the same thing. Groups of Muslims - trying to keep people from voting - or trying to passively cooerce people into voting a certain way - on American soil!!!