Well, at oral argument, Scalia made it clear that only legal votes should be counted. To be honest, since the question was &quot;what is a legal vote?&quot; that seemed like circular reasoning. The underlying idea, though, is that if I walk into a polling place, and proudly yell my vote, and walk out, my vote isn&#x27;t counted regardless of how clear the intent was.<p>Scalia&#x27;s suggestion was that if a vote couldn&#x27;t be read by a machine, it wasn&#x27;t a legitimate vote regardless of any extenuating details. That may have been influenced by the fact that Florida law only mentioned recounts that were performed by running the ballots through the machines a second time.