As for the Supremes, they are about to define robotics and differentiate social precription in face of ancient de facto segregation. That is, if they are cognizant of the Big Picture. It is Man vs. Machine; the human judgement of an intent to cast a vote in a flawed mechanized environment. The machines don't read their own process...which is why IBM gave up on punch card readers about 25 years or so ago. The normal process is to accept the 2% error factor the machine creates by this failure to read "chad-ish" error. Now, the question is or is not if the whole statewide reject ballots or no reject ballots are to be actually placed in the subjective judgement of a human being. I find it significant that the Republicans object. This not only because of the fact they are continually losing ground, but because the guy (who is maybe about to be elected) kills people regularly and justifies it with presumptions that THE LAW has taken its rightfull course. Republicans do that and now are trying to justify the dismissal of the re-count (by humans) as a change in THE LAW after the fact. We are told to wait and change THE LAW by the party that is about to take absolute control of the entire mechanism. As though that were possible. Nope. The Electoral College is here to stay (baring actual revolution). The Supremes (National) probably will send it back to the Supremes (Floridian) with stipulation that Curly, Larry and Moe be put in charge of the vote count. I am in a quitting mode, so I figure that I have found the one guy in America with the right attitude about this election: http://store.yahoo.com/whatpresident/index.html Now, there is American enterprise in action. Wish I had thought of it myself.