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Strategies & Market Trends : Zeev's Turnips

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To: Logain Ablar who wrote (180)11/27/2000 11:41:13 PM
From: Carl R.  Read Replies (1) of 644
 
Tim, another possibility is that PB deliberately missed in order to give reasons for additional lawsuits. The timing is simply too narrow a miss, so I am suspicious. They knew that if the count was completed with the counting rules that they were using that they couldn't come up with enough votes, so they deliberately came in an hour late, knowing that the result would be to not certify the votes. This will make it easier to contest the election and to get yet another recount, this time perhaps with even more liberal counting methods.

Another interesting legal question is preparing to come our way, by the way. If we assume for the moment that the US SC will overturn the Florida decision, then the manual recounts will have been illegal. Gore supporters will try to use the changes as evidence in challenging the elections and requesting post-certification recounts. As a cynic, it will be humorous for me to watch the same people that argue that evidence illegally obtained from criminal suspects should be totally excluded arguing that evidence from illegal manual recounts should be introduced to show that recounts are justified. I have no prediction as to the outcome of such a case, by the way.

Carl
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