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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (73089)11/13/2000 6:37:19 PM
From: iandiareii  Read Replies (2) of 769667
 
You misstate. The Sec. of State recognizes that the statute provides for some discretion, but says not in the instant case. The discretion is clearly there in the statute -- all reasonable parties agree -- but as to its proper application the statute is silent. No mention of hurricanes, earthquakes, snakebite, must-see-TV...nothing. Not even a generic 'acts of God.' Silent.

From that silence she infers a lack of discretion here since, on other matters pertaining to recounts, the legislature was something more than silent. That's one reading. However, it will not prevail in court.

The Sec. of State's cramped extrapolation from a single, silent sub-section of Florida's election laws won't trump the legislature's expressed guidance of a recount, now being pursued in good faith and without undue delay. An extension will be granted.
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