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Here's a PDF (via megnut) from an MIT professor detailing the statistical probability that Buchanan really got as many votes as he did in Palm Beach (answer: 1 in 3,000,000,000,000,000.) That seems significant, but still the question remains as to what does the law say about situations of this sort. Lawrence Tribe (Harvard constitutional law professor with ABC news affiliations) was on TV last night making a very strong case for the legality of a Gore challenge in Florida. There is definitely precedent in the state for adjusting the vote count. It happened in a Miami mayoral election. Tribe even pointed to a recent Florida supreme court decision that seems to mandate adjustments to the vote count in such cases. He didn't exactly seem unbiased, but he is a heavyweight.