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To: hmaly who wrote (128711)	11/17/2000 1:50:06 PM
From: pgerassi	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1570103

Dear Hmaly: Some reasons for the short (???) recount time allowed by law (7 days): 1) Machine recounts can only be completed in seven days. 2) Recounts only, if a machine broke, etc. 3) Reason to force counties and cities to use some other method than PCBs. Manual recount of OSBs are much faster and have less contention. Just look at Volusia county (they made it in seven days with both a machine and manual all county recount). OSBs rule! Voting Machines can only be resummed (a process that should take no more than a few hours). 4) They consider that a single recount to be sufficient and allow for such things as breakdowns and temporary things like a storm or power failure, etc. Something that delays a machine recount for more than seven days would have to be a disaster like two consecutive late season hurricanes or a terrorist using a tactical nuclear weapon on Miami. 5) Compromise between position of no recount at all and hand recount for whole state. They figure that, if counties want the ability to do it, they need to invest in the resources before an election (those counties had years to go to an easier system to recount manually). Not only does the Gore campaign want selective counts, but also has selective memory on laws and thus breaks those that are inconvenient. He agreed to the rules in Florida before the election (he had to register). Now that they are inconvenient to his bid for the office to which he seeks, he wants to ignore them and to break them, if he can not ignore them. He is saying that he will obey the law only if he feels like it. Well, now he will be forced (yet again) to abide by the laws he swore to uphold. Pete