The San Diego Union Tribune has posted my oped, “The Mayoral Election: Off to Court We Likely Go.” Two snippets:
“Frye has a reasonable but by no means certain chance of prevailing in such a contest, but both candidates and the courts stand to lose legitimacy regardless of who becomes mayor.”
“In a number of ways, the coming legal contest is a lower-stakes version of Bush v. Gore, the Florida litigation that ended the 2000 presidential election. Again, Democrats are asking for the intent of the voters to prevail and for courts to require elections officials to ‘count every vote.’ And Republicans are stressing compliance with the technical rules. They argue that fairness in elections requires that counting be done following the rules as written.”