>>>Partytime,
The party is over as of 5pm EST today!
Them votes gotta be certified or they don't
count at all.
Lets see Alpha Gore try and stop that with
his army of lawyers...
-John<<<
Sorry, John. But a state cannot have a law which meets an impossible test for compliance. The Florida law which gives a candidate the right to request a hand recount in a county specific, must allow time sufficient for that hand recount to happen. And it's precisely this fact which ultimately enables the Florida secretary of state discretion on accepting the results of the hand recount.
In effect, the recent judicial ruling is the Floridian secretary of state cannot make an arbitrary decision on accepting valid votes from the counties. Any appeal will rule there must exist a fair and reasonable period of time by which to conduct the hand recount, and the results of that handcount must be accepted.
One thing I think everyone has missed, largely due to the GOPwinger public relations campaign. Gore has only requested ONE recount, and in a very unburdenous manner by requesting a hand recount in four counties only, as he was entitled to do by Florida law.
The Bush campaign, however, indeed made a serious and perhaps detrimental tactical error by not requesting recounts in counties which could have sided favorably to it. It's wrong to blame Gore for a tactical error on the part of the Bush campaign.
All of the above, of course, is my opinion. |
