Ways the election could end up in the supreme court...

1. Voting glitches involving electronic or other voting machines
2. Litigation over which provisional ballots are valid
3. A fight over the Colorado amendment to split the electoral vote
4. A tie in the electoral college or a faithless elector
5. A terrorist attack that disrupts voting in a swing state
6. Non-counting of absentee votes of overseas voters that arrive late via snail mail

Here's more:

Tuesday I cited Richard L. Hasen on five ways this election could end up in the Supreme Court. Let me now add a sixth way. Today salon.com reported massive snafus with getting absentee ballots to the estimated 4 million American voters overseas. The office in charge of helping overseas Americans to vote is totally ineffective. In 2000 it was excoriated by the GAO for losing thousands of overseas votes. It now appears to be doing its best to make sure the 10% of overseas Americans who are in the military (and largely Republican) can vote while ignoring the 90% who are civilians and who hear about America's loss of respect in the world daily and are much more likely to want to replace George Bush. The office is dawdling about putting the emergency write-in ballot on its website, so Americans overseas who need one should get it from their consulate or embassy. The case which may well hit the Supreme Court will revolve about a simple question: Can a county send a voter his absentee ballot by snail mail to a far-away country a couple of days before the election and then refuse to count it because it came back after the deadline?