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

To: The Street who wrote (86229)	11/24/2000 6:39:54 AM
From: ColtonGang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

CNN>........Q: What is the likelihood of the U.S. Supreme Court accepting the request from Gov. George W. Bush to block the Florida Supreme Court decision to allow the hand counting of ballots? COSSACK: I don't think it's strong. You have to have a federal question in order for the U.S. Supreme Court to accept the case. Bush's argument is that selective hand counting means all votes are not being treated equally so he's asking them to stop all the hand counting. But how ballots are counted is presumptively a state issue. Unless (the U.S. Supreme Court justices) can see that there was an incredible abuse of discretion -- like a poll tax was imposed or something on that order -- this is the sort of thing they would leave to the states. Q: What about the chances of Vice President Al Gore succeeding in his appeal to the Florida Supreme Court to force Miami-Dade County to resume hand counting votes? COSSACK: The Gore team's argument is as follows: Once you take a sampling and once you find there is a tabulation error, then you must recount. But the Circuit Court last night denied Gore's request and that's why Gore is before the Supreme Court. The (election workers) said, "You gave us a deadline to get it done by Sunday. We can't get it done by Sunday. We're through counting. You count. We don't want to count anymore." One could almost describe it as an act of civil disobedience. I don't know how you enforce an order to keep counting because the election workers are volunteers.