The U.S. Supreme Court. A. Four justices are required for the U.S. court to hear the case, and there are probably are four who would agree to take it, said Jonathan Entin, a constitutional and election law professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Five votes are needed to issue a stay, and that's more iffy. The key people to watch are the court's swing justices, Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy. A. Very quickly.
Time is short.
There are more than 40,000 undervotes. Ballots on which a vote counting machine could not find any votes for president, as opposed to someone who voted twice for the same office. Each county canvassing board, with the exception of Miami-Dade and Palm Beach, whose ballots are already in the custody of a Leon County court in Tallahassee, has to tally these undervotes. Identifying them is the trick. Canvassers do it by running all ballots through the vote counting machines, which spit out the undervotes.