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

To: JamesB who wrote (76614)	11/15/2000 7:11:20 PM
From: jhild	Respond to of 769670

This is not true. Both candidates could petition a court to do the recounts jointly. I think they may be able to do that.

To: JamesB who wrote (76614)	11/16/2000 6:39:48 AM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Manual recounts are provided by Florida law. The Harris deadlines are administrative barriers that will almost certainly be rejected by the courts. If both candidates agree to manual recounts across the entire state, they can be done very easily, IMO. The only problem is money, and I am sure the two campaigns can scrounge up a few million to compensate the counties for the recounts. As I said before, statistically Bush should not be afraid of a total recount, because of his presumed superiority in the as yet unknown absentee and overseas ballots. The only reason for hesitation is the contradiction of his current position that manual counts are worse than machine counts, which is patently untrue. What Bush should be afraid are the proceedings in Palm Beach regarding the citizen lawsuits, presided by judge Jorge Labarga. I know the judge, having been juror in one of his trial. He is young, ambitious and has a wicked sense of humor that he regularly displays in court. He won't be afraid to come up with a controversial remedy. Given that there is no precedent for holding again a partial presidential election but there are precedents of judges apportioning the votes under dispute using a "reasonable" formula, I suspect that the disputed votes (most of Buchanan's and perhaps 50% of the double punched ballots) will be apportioned between Bush and Gore, and Gore will get the lion's share and win the election. My advise to Bush: take Gore's offer before it is too late. Kyros