Liberal jurists go local.
Wait until Justice Souter gets a chance to overturn a state law on one of those. In fact, quite unlike abortion and sodomy, the Constitution and federal law at least say something about the process of choosing federal electors. In a case called Cousins v. Wigoda , the Supreme Court said that the pervasive national interest in the selection of candidates for national office, and this national interest is greater than any interest of an individual State. The Supreme Court may do loopy, unpredictable things from time to time, but the justices can read, and the Florida law says county returns must be filed within seven days of the election. But Bush would have won by a greater number of votes after only seven days of Democrat vote-stealing.