Eight Years After Bush v. Gore, Why is There Still So Much Election Litigation and What Does This Mean for Voter Confidence in the Electoral Process?

Richard L. Hasen has this commentary on Findlaw. He writes:

. . . The short answer to why this is occurring is this: We haven’t made some important changes in election laws that should have been made soon after Florida 2000, and some of the post-2000 changes that were put into place have actually made things worse.  . . .

What can be done about these problems? The answer, I believe, is that we need a government bailout of our broken electoral system — just like the one we’ve seen for our broken financial system. But this bailout won’t be about money, or at least won’t be primarily about money. It will be more centrally about ensuring uniformity and fairness in the election process . . .