I think the reason the SCOTUS had to make the call in 2000 was because they didn't want Florida to recount their votes by hand. Thanks to the SCOTUS interference, that was the first time in American history that a state was prevented from doing what it was supposed to do by law. Stopping a vote count and just saying, "This is your new president, accept it, we have spoken!"??? Utter insanity.
I think the Diebold machines will take care of it nicely this time around. No matter how people vote, it will come out the way TPTB want it to.
However, I will be watching to see how many votes Gary Johnson gets in my small rural county. If they say he got none, I'll know my vote was thrown out, since I will be able to vouch for the fact that he got at least one.
