Stewart v. Blackwell

MEMORANDUM OPINION

DOWD, District Judge.

I. Introduction

The highly disputed presidential election in 2000, centered on the issue of which presidential candidate, A Gore or George Bush, was entitled to the critical electoral vote for Florida, gave rise to litigation challenging the use of various forms of balloting procedures. This case involves the plaintiffs’ challenge in Ohio to the use of punch card and “central-count” optical scanning technology.

The case was started in the year 2002. It became obvious that the challenge which championed Direct Record Electronic (DRE) technology as the…