As lawyers clean up small details, the show must go on in California

Just when it seemed America's weirdest election couldn't get any weirder, the nation's weirdest court weighed in with a decision that left California—and the rest of the country—wondering what could possibly happen next.

With just three weeks to go before the vote to recall Gov. Gray Davis, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Sept. 15 managed to stun even veteran observers of the left-wing bench. Responding to a lawsuit brought by the ACLU, a three-judge panel ruled that the punch-card ballots used in Los Angeles, San Diego, and Sacramento would "disenfranchise" poor, minority voters. The whole election would have to be postponed, the court said, until a suitable voting apparatus could be found.

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September 27, 2003, Vol. 18, No. 37

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