The Florida Recount: Chronology of Lawsuits (FindLaw)

Legal Materials

• Dec. 8 Florida Supreme Court Order to Begin Undervote Re-Count (PDF file); also available at FindLaw and C-Span.
• Dec. 7 Florida Supreme Court Hearing
• Documents filed with Leon County Circuit Court
• Taped broadcast of the argument before the U.S. Supreme Court (C-SPAN)
• Transcript of the oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court: CNN or Washington Post.
• Supreme Court of the United States: Florida Election Cases
• Florida Supreme Court Opinion on Election Cases You must have Adobe Acrobat to view the opinion.
• Documents filed with the Florida Supreme Court
• Transcript: Florida Supreme Court hearing on election ballot recount
• The full text of all court documents including the parties' Supreme Court briefs (FindLaw)
• Florida's election laws including their legislative history at the Florida legislature's page (goes back 2 years).
• Florida's Attorney General Advisory Legal Opinion #AGO 2000-65 on manual counting of ballots

• Article from the Florida Times-Union on ballot-couting machines
• The Jurist (at U-Pitt Law) offers the latest legal coverage. The Jurist also has on-line discussion between two constitutional law professors (Peter M. Shane of the Univ. of Pittsburgh and Ronald D. Rotunda of the Univ. of Illinois) regarding the Florida recount situation and the matters before the US Supreme Court.
• Continuing news coverage can be had at cnn.com as well as at msnbc.com. Recent stories can be reviewed on Yahoo's election coverage page.
• Those eager to check out the latest "official spin" may wish to consult the campaign sites for Bush and Gore, as well as the Democratic Party and Republican Party home pages.
• Politics at Slate.com offers continuing commentary, as does The New Republic.
• For an irreverent look at the election, check out The Onion which is on top of the situation with its Mayhem 2000 "coverage" (such as "Clinton Declares Self President for Life").

• Electoral College
• June 12, 1884 Congressional Record--House: Count of Electoral Vote
• Jan. 21, 1886 Congressional Record--Senate: Counting of Electoral Votes

• Accuracy, Integrity, and Security in Computerized Vote-Tallying (National Bureau of Standards Publication #500-158, August 1989)
• Finding Precedent: Hayes v. Tilden, The Electoral College Controversy of 1876-1877 (Harper's Weekly)
• Bibliography of Federal & Florida Election Law (Nova Southeastern University Law Library)
• Florida Department of State Election Division