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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (8255)	12/3/2000 12:43:00 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

Isn't that a relative opinion? Remember that the Palm Beach canvassing board took Thanksgiving Day off as a holiday. They didn't set it up to work 24 hours a day recounting votes Remember, under the original seven day deadline, they would have had no more than two days to do the recounts, at most, clearly not enough time to recount a large county. When they did the recount, they clearly underestimated the number of delays that would be caused by lawyers for both sides. Harris was facing a MANDATORY certification date 7 days after the election. She had the discretion to accept amended returns after the deadline, I believe. Somehow I have to believe that if Bush had been down by 300 votes, the counties would have been permitted an extension, and that the very strict construction she put on the rules -- no exceptions except for fraud, hurricanes, or machine breakdown -- would have been softened to include a case where the machine's normal error rate exceeded the margin of victory. I believe the statute says something about permitting canvassing boards to do a recount if they think it might alter the result of the election. The argument I heard from the Bush camp was that Harris acted properly within the bounds of her discretion, not that she was powerless to decide otherwise than as she did.

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (8255)	12/3/2000 9:12:48 AM
From: Sig	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

>>> they were saying that the statute that says "certify after 7 days" >>> Thanks for a great summary of events and ideas. Was there anyone (except an attorney) who could have read that law or statute as permitting endless recounts and extensions after the 14th of Nov.? Having been given an extra 12 days to do a manual recount it was still not completed. If one still wonders just how much time is required to do a manual recount, just give Mr Gore one more chance and it would be completed in hours, not days, even if the National Guard was needed to be called in to do it as someone suggested. There will always be a cloud over this election, since there would remain hundreds of thousands of 'uncounted' votes in other Republican precincts even if the Gore team manages to mine another 538 votes from selected Democratic precincts. In that case and being only one vote behind, Mr Bush could contest the result and be told, well sorry, you are out of time because its now December 12 and you are REALLY out of time. Democrats could say, "Why don't you appeal to the USSP and get the law changed in the same manner we appealed to the FSP hahahahahahahahahaha TS" Sig Looking forward to another day in the life of Judge Saul