ABSTRACT
The key sentence in Bush v. Gore makes an early and ominous cameo appearance early on in the decision, like Alfred Hitchcock slipping himself into one of his murder mysteries. Almost in passing, the majority writes: “The individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors for the President of the United States….1”
Read it again: we, the people, have no constitutional right to vote for president or for the electors who choose the president. This dazzling declaration creates the karma-the logical sequence of cause and effectthat permits the Court to disenfranchise thousands of people as a remedy for hypothetical problems in the counting of a few ballots.
