One was the Electoral Count Act.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

What's worse, none of the Justices seemed willing to buy his creative theory that the Electoral Count Act had been violated.

CNN: May It Please The Court

Olson, a stellar appellate lawyer who worked in Reagan's Justice Department alongside Kenneth Starr, argued that the Florida court's ruling amounted to the creation of a new law after the election--a breach of the federal Electoral Count Act of 1887, a law previously untested in court and exhumed recently by G.

CNN: May It Please The Court