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From the Chicago Tribune: A victory for equal protection. "As some voices, this newspaper's included, have argued from the start, the only fair way to count ballots is with uniform standards so that any errors occur randomly, and not by crafty legal design. With Tuesday night's ruling, that concept now appears inviolate."

So much so, that the decision takes away the constitutional right of the states to conduct there own elections. By invoking the 14th Amendment the Supreme Court has set law that ALL counties in ALL states MUST have a uniform way of conducting and counting ballots.

That means that each state must use the same voting system, ballot formation, and ballot tabulation method, otherwise it can be a "violation of equal protection".

This is a farce, the 14th Amendment was never designed for this. The section in question is Section 1 which reads:

Section 1.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

That was written to prevent a state from going around the 13th Amendment which abolished Slavery.