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To: Mr. Palau who wrote (71599)	11/12/2000 4:49:34 PM
From: SecularBull	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Looks like a line in the sand has been drawn by the state canvassing commission. LoF

To: Mr. Palau who wrote (71599)	11/12/2000 5:33:07 PM
From: iandiareii	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Here are the only justifications I've come across so far from Mr. Crawford for standing on the Tuesday deadline. Two points: 1) His reading of the statute is clearly wrong. As you posted, the statute provides a simple process for extending Tuesday's soft deadline. It's discretionary. 2) At the very least, his concern about ballot boxes "sitting in some closet in somebody's office in some very small counties" provides no grounds for halting the on-going Palm Beach County recount. Palm Beach County election officials order full hand recount; Bush campaign decries action Meanwhile, Florida's top election official warned the state's counties and the presidential candidates Saturday against prolonging the recount, saying the system is about to "melt down." Bob Crawford, who replaced Gov. Jeb Bush as commissioner of Florida's Canvassing Commission, said Saturday that if a county misses the state's deadline for certifying results, the entire county's vote will be thrown out. "The statute is very clear that if a county's results are not to us by 5 p.m. Tuesday we shall ignore that county's vote, and the counties need to be very aware of that," Crawford told reporters. "Candidates asking for recounts need to be aware of that." Crawford also stressed that he believed the system is being pressed to its limits. "You've got boxes of ballots right now in Florida that will determine the next president of the United States probably sitting in some closet in somebody's office in some very small counties," he continued. "How long can that go on and how long can we risk the integrity of those ballots? So we've got to move this thing." More cnn.com He may have had more to say on this, but this is all I've found in print. Thus far, Mr. Crawford offers only the shakiest of arguments for his decision. What else did he say?