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Politics : Why is Gore Trying to Steal the Presidency? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Don Pueblo who wrote (1212)	11/19/2000 12:39:18 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3887

. Under Florida state law, there was a winner. However, the Florida Supreme Court has put a hold on the declaration of the winner of the election. We all are awaiting further developments on this. I AM UNBIASED: I have not read the reasons that the Secretary of State used to deny the certification of additional recounted ballots. However, unhampered by this detail, I assume the Florida Supreme Court, WHICH TOOK THE CASE WITHOUT BEING ASKED, is going to say that the SOS can certify or not under the Law of the State, at her unabused discretion, which has its own procedures for examining the recount of the Counties, but she must cert all or none. Ie the ballots she added from the manual recount should not be counted, and must be subtracted from the total, or all recounts must be added, again, at her reasoned discretion. Conceptually, I can think of no legal reason to distinguish the two groups. I do not think the Court is going to involve itself in establishing a binding legal presumption of the intent of the voter whose chad was found to be hanging. Certainly not before all administrative hearings have had a chance to flush out the evidence. As a minor corollary, they may also rule that attorneys, from outside the state, that are not licensed to practice in the State of Florida may be in violation of State Bar Rules of Ethics. You are right about the internet. But this is not a constitutional crisis, so far, this is business as usual and so far each court decision has been consistent with state law.