“By changing the rules of the game after it’s been played to potentially disenfranchise as many as 60,000 voters, this court has gone where no court has gone before . .. Until this decision, courts facing challenges to ballots cast in compliance with past practice and election administrators’ instructions had uniformly sided with the voters.”

–Benjamin Ginsberg, a Republican election lawyer who was national counsel for the Bush-Cheney campaign during the 2000 election and recount, to the NY Times, on the abysmal and disenfranchising 2-1 North Carolina ruling.