Memo Reveals How Sandra Day O'Connor Helped Get George W. Bush to the White House

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A newly released document shows how former SCOTUS Justice Sandra Day O'Connor played a greater role than previously known in Bush v. Gore, the 2000 case that handed the presidency to George W. Bush.

"I am concerned that the Florida Supreme Court transgressed the lines of authority drawn by Article II of the federal Constitution in substantially changing the state Legislature's statutory scheme for the appointment of presidential electors," O'Connor wrote.

"Accordingly, there was no guarantee that those ballots deemed undervotes had not been previously tabulated," O'Connor asserted."More importantly, the court failed to provide any standard more specific than the 'intent of the voter' standard to govern this statewide undervote recount. Therefore, each individual county was left to devise its own standards."

 

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