The recent St. Petersburg mayoral election came off without a hitch, at least one worth mentioning. So far nobody has come forward to claim they were disenfranchised. It just goes to show that the punch ballot is highly accurate if people follow the rules. Moreover, city elections tend to attract the literate political junky, the kind of folks who write nasty letters to editors. In the city's primary, one candidate sought and got a recount.
Recounts are one thing, but to urge a court to override Florida's election code is something else.
Very few voters understand the underlying issue behind Bush vs. Gore. Minorities do not, because they have looked to the U.S. Supreme Court as their personal protector, not a protector of the U.S. Constitution. Nobody had ever protested and contested a presidential election. Nobody had ever sued to get the job. Nor had any presidential contender orchestrated the many individual lawsuits by the party faithful throughout the state.