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To: david_langston who wrote (128356)	11/13/2000 6:47:30 AM
From: stribe30	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580479

David said: The law states that the hand counts must be finished by Tues. evening and the Dems are filing for extensions to the time limit. They will look like they are dragging the election out after the Republicans drop their suit. All this is only my opinion of course. Well.. 1 important thing is: its the COUNTIES that are filing for an extension of the deadline.. NOT the Democrats.. at least, not yet. I think the Dems are doing pretty well in the public relations and tactical battles so far. 1) Leave the counties to fight for the extension and leave the suits for private people to file.. and support them, but dont get directly involved. 2) Bush comes in with his attempted injunction with the recount, and the Dems can say with validity that it was his campaign that went to court first, and they are attempting to thwart local officials, who they have been advocates of in the past, with a federal jurisdiction, which they have also in the past stated should stay out of local affairs. 3) They have effectively (IMHO) neutralized the "machine count is better" argument that James Baker came with by pointing out that Bush liked human recounts enough to sign into law in Texas 3 yrs ago that human recounts were preferable and the preferred choice to machine counts. 4) Also IMHO, they have neutralized the cry of it being unfair that there are recounts only in 4 heavily Democratic counties by saying that the Republicans had every opportunity to ask for their own hand recount but failed to do so (they still can in the remaining 10 or so states that havent certified results) and that recounts are provided for under Florida law. This all changes of course if they can persuade the judge to issue this injunction.. anything is possible of course.. but most ppl seem to thinkthe federal court may throw it out over lack of jurisdiction, never mind the legal arguments. We'll find out soon enough