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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Lacelle who wrote (73899)	11/14/2000 11:02:42 AM
From: microhoogle!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Don't get too cocky at the hack work of republican partisans in Florida. If both sides want to play ugly, it can get REAL ugly with both candidates getting tarnished in the process. Eventually, you will see tarnished Al Gore as president, as he has means to drag this on beyond Dec 18 when electors vote (florida will not be represented). At present Gore has upper hand on this issue and court of public opinion.

To: John Lacelle who wrote (73899)	11/14/2000 3:21:22 PM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 769667

>>>Partytime, The party is over as of 5pm EST today! Them votes gotta be certified or they don't count at all. Lets see Alpha Gore try and stop that with his army of lawyers... -John<<< Sorry, John. But a state cannot have a law which meets an impossible test for compliance. The Florida law which gives a candidate the right to request a hand recount in a county specific, must allow time sufficient for that hand recount to happen. And it's precisely this fact which ultimately enables the Florida secretary of state discretion on accepting the results of the hand recount. In effect, the recent judicial ruling is the Floridian secretary of state cannot make an arbitrary decision on accepting valid votes from the counties. Any appeal will rule there must exist a fair and reasonable period of time by which to conduct the hand recount, and the results of that handcount must be accepted. One thing I think everyone has missed, largely due to the GOPwinger public relations campaign. Gore has only requested ONE recount, and in a very unburdenous manner by requesting a hand recount in four counties only, as he was entitled to do by Florida law. The Bush campaign, however, indeed made a serious and perhaps detrimental tactical error by not requesting recounts in counties which could have sided favorably to it. It's wrong to blame Gore for a tactical error on the part of the Bush campaign. All of the above, of course, is my opinion.