TG,
I will continue to plead the case that unless time delays in receipt of revised votes severely impact on the pre-ordained time schedule of selecting electors(12/12), meeting of electors(12/18), and counting of electoral votes by the Congress(1/6), then a decision to reject those revised vote totals, prior to any and all of the aforementioned dates, can be construed as arbitrary. Now, I sure ain't a lawyer, but I think a judge(s) just might agree with me, especially if those vote totals are determined within the framework of existing FL law.
Those are not the deadlines in the Florida law. The deadline was on Tuesday. The counties had their chance to present their reason why they needed the extension.
I read them, and I had to chuckle when I read the Broward county. Among their reason for needing an extension is that one of the commissioners had a pre-scheduled vacation, and that everybody took a day off to for Veterans' day.
Here is their letter: cnn.com
I expected the counties to do a lot better job.
Just for entertainment, here is Palm Beach county letter: cnn.com
This letter sounds to me like: "We are so incompetent and confused here that that everytime we recount, we get a different result."
If this goes to court, the court's scope will (should) be whether the reasons in those 2 letters are sufficient for the SOS to grant an extension. After reading the letters, I think it is a weak case.
Joe |
