No one had ever been through anything like this before. The key players were all flying blind, as were we. Where we go from here depends on so much that is unknowable. Already, the presidents of the nation's leading technological universities have pledged to develop a new, reliable, inexpensive high-tech voting system. In Florida, Gov. Jeb Bush has set up a bipartisan commission to find out what went wrong and to try to fix it.
Voting is a privilege, but it's also a right.
And if it is not to be taken casually by the public, it can't be taken casually by its stewards, either. What matters, too, is whether we come to regret the decision the people of Florida did or didn't make. It's not preordained that George W. Bush will meet the same fate. The challenge history has given him is to be remembered for what he accomplishes in the White House, not just for how fortunate he was to get there. The Daily Camera.