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To: William Hunt who wrote (87882)11/20/2000 5:02:46 PM
From: Keith Feral  Read Replies (3) of 152472
 
OT - FL Supreme Court

I think that their questions accurately balanced the dilemma before them. My question is how they made an injunction against the Secretary of State with no legal standing, i. e. there was no petition before them to make a legal judgement.

However, the turn of events seems to be improving as the FL Attorney General has ruled that overseas ballots that were discarded for lack of postmarks must be included. This could deliver Bush an additional 300 to 500 votes, assuming the same margin of vicory for the remaining 1400 votes. That would increase his margin to 1230 to 1430.

With 50% of Palm Beach in and 80% of Broward in, Gore has only picked up 127 votes. With Vollutia arleady in, Dade County is the only wild card that could tip the balance in favor of Gore. I think that Gore's strategy to erode Bush's margin of victory through dimpled ballots is falling short of his objective.

With the Supreme Court making a ruling, this strategy works in favor of Bush from this point. If they rule in favor of Gore, they have diminished their ability to contest the election results since their protests have already reached the highest court in Florida. If the court rules in favor of Bush, Gore suffers a complete loss of confidence and the election results will be certified without further delay. This would force Gore to contest the election results with the State court in Leon County which maintained that Harris demonstrated proper discretion in denying the Democrat's complaints on Friday.

I think the lack of legal challenges left for the Democrats is becoming obvious.
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