Way back in the bowels of this thread, I made a post to Cobalt Blue I think. The thrust of it was that I believed that this 7 day vote deadline issue would ultimately go to the FL Supreme Court and that they would decide against Katherine Harris.
At that time, I gave the reason thusly: As long as the final definitive totals were made available and certified by no later than Dec 12, then there would be no adverse impact whatsoever with respect to compliance with the US Constitution. (Dec 12 being the date the FL electors would be determined.) Moreover, if the recounts ensured that vote allocations would be properly performed, without any negative time impacts, then the Court would rule in favor of letting the counts continue.
Moreover, I brought up a point somewhere else that the Congress, though expecting those votes to be cast on Dec 18, will send dunning notices even after that date to notify any tardy state that they better get their electoral votes in. The point of my argument was this, notwithstanding the 7 day deadline that Harris enforced, theoretically, as long as those electoral votes are transmitted to the Congress by Jan. 6, in time for counting by the Congress, absolutely no negative time impact will have occurred.
One of the Justices asked an attorney to give the impact of time delays on the election process.
JMO
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