Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore discusses the responsibilities and challenges he faces in reviewing death penalty cases in his state. Subscribe to one of our news e-mail lists . Senior Washington Correspondent Charles Bierbauer is covering Bush v. Palm Beach Canvassing Board, the first presidential case the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear in its 210-year history. Here he answers a few questions for CNN.Com about the significance and issues behind the case.
Voters still do that.
The U.S. Supreme Court has never allowed cameras inside, and worries about editing of its audio. That would shift the official results back to the automatic recount completed by November 14. Bush's lawyers say because Miami-Dade had not started a hand recount by then, it cannot start one now. This case does not, and should not, alter the rights of the states to select their electors. It should make states find the surest pattern to have the electors determined by the vote and not by state legislatures as a result of the kind of impasse we may be seeing in Florida.