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

To: Michael M who wrote (107476)	12/9/2000 10:35:30 AM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

It is very unfair process. Now Duval County says they may not meet deadline, but that's ok, a partial count will do, so says the FSSC. That is why Harding dissented, at least to my interpretation of his quoting Lombardi: While this Court must be ever mindful of the Legislature’s plenary power to appoint presidential electors, see U.S. Const. art. II, § 1, cl. 2, I am more concerned that the majority is departing from the essential requirements of the law by providing a remedy which is impossible to achieve and which will ultimately lead to chaos. In giving Judge Sauls the option to order a statewide recount, the majority permits a remedy which was not prayed for, which is based upon a premise for which there is no evidence, and which presents Judge Sauls with options to order entities (i.e. local canvassing boards) to conduct recounts when they have not been served, have not been named as parties, but, most importantly, have not had the opportunity to be heard. In effect, the majority is allowing the results of the statewide election to be determined by the manual recount in Miami-Dade County because a statewide recount will be impossible to accomplish. Even if by some miracle a portion of the statewide recount is completed by December 12, a partial recount is not acceptable. The uncertainty of the outcome of this election will be greater under the remedy afforded by the majority than the uncertainty that now exists. The circumstances of this election call to mind a quote from football coaching legend Vince Lombardi: “We didn’t lose the game, we just ran out of time.” SHAW, J., concurs.