Robin, I don't wonder how the Supreme Court will rule where the concern is that there are faulty voting techniques which may disenfranchise a population, and decide an election's outcome. If they didn't mind the chads in Bush v. Gore, why would it bother them here? Besides, California law holds that the chad voting machines must be replaced by Jan 2004, and so their use in this election seems legal, unless someone would be willing to declare all past CA elections using punch cards to be invalid.