'Nightmare' Election Scenario in Pennsylvania

Pity Pennsylvania. First a court decides that Fred Flintstone and Mickey Mouse can't get Ralph Nader on the ballot, and now armies of lawyers are poised to invade the state after an Election Day everyone predicts to be messy, perhaps even worse than Florida in 2000.

"On Nov. 2, Pennsylvanians will use five voting methods: paper ballots, punch cards, lever machines, optical-scan systems and electronic systems. Of the half-dozen swing states still considered battlegrounds, Pennsylvania has the most eclectic distribution of voting systems," the New York Times noted today.

"Combined with highly decentralized election rules, the patchwork of voting technologies could make a broad, accurate recount difficult in Pennsylvania, whose 21 electoral votes could be crucial to either presidential candidate."

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