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To: Logain Ablar who wrote (180)	11/27/2000 9:43:38 AM
From: Bosco	Respond to of 644

<ot>Hi Tim - I really don't know the hour by hour schedule, but I am not faulting people to take the Thanksgiving Day off. Besides, in a backhanded way, I think that proves that they are not as partisan as some people have painted them. At this point, IMHO, making preemptive defense for the Bush camp is unnecessary. The thing is, since the Gore camp has filed suits to contest the outcomes, it is a different ballgame. Btw, the Bush camp has also filed suits on the absentee ballots. And the seminole case is still up in the air. If I were either camp's lawyer, I would go with their respective strategy too. This is akin to a homocide case, the state may bring suit to a serial murderer based on a number of cases, but the prosecutors may reserve a punch of others just in case the murderer got off on a technicality. Then, other cases can be filed w/o causing a double jeopardy. As a disclaimer, I am not a lawyer, so this is based on reasonable imagination, and have no bearing in any real situation :) best, Bosco

To: Logain Ablar who wrote (180)	11/27/2000 2:40:12 PM
From: Bosco	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 644

<ot>Hi Tim & Carl - never quite a political person until recently, this is an interesting article about Sec Baker time.com Do you think the assessment is reasonable? best, Bosco

To: Logain Ablar who wrote (180)	11/27/2000 11:41:13 PM
From: Carl R.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 644

Tim, another possibility is that PB deliberately missed in order to give reasons for additional lawsuits. The timing is simply too narrow a miss, so I am suspicious. They knew that if the count was completed with the counting rules that they were using that they couldn't come up with enough votes, so they deliberately came in an hour late, knowing that the result would be to not certify the votes. This will make it easier to contest the election and to get yet another recount, this time perhaps with even more liberal counting methods. Another interesting legal question is preparing to come our way, by the way. If we assume for the moment that the US SC will overturn the Florida decision, then the manual recounts will have been illegal. Gore supporters will try to use the changes as evidence in challenging the elections and requesting post-certification recounts. As a cynic, it will be humorous for me to watch the same people that argue that evidence illegally obtained from criminal suspects should be totally excluded arguing that evidence from illegal manual recounts should be introduced to show that recounts are justified. I have no prediction as to the outcome of such a case, by the way. Carl