Wexler v. Lepore’s Empirical Analysis
2004
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Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on George Bush v. Albert Gore · 354 So. 2d 362 - Carlile v. GAME AND FRESH WATER FISH COM'N · Weber v. Shelley · Wexler v. Lepore · 772 So. 2d 1243 - Gore v. Harris
Most-quoted passages
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“The rules promulgated pursuant to the amended statutes comply with the requirements established by Bush v. Gore. Defendants have prescribed uniform, nondifferential standards for what constitutes a legal vote under each certified voting system, and have established procedures for conducting a manual recount of overvotes and undervotes in the entire geographic region.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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