The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals postponed California’s recall election Monday morning, citing the risk of a post-election mess to rival the 2000 Florida debacle.
“The choice between holding a hurried, constitutionally infirm election and one held a short time later that assures voters that the ‘rudimentary requirements of equal treatment and fundamental fairness are satisfied’ is clear,” the court wrote in a unanimous, unsigned opinion that quoted liberally from the U.S. Supreme Court’s Bush v. Gore decision.