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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Valley Girl who wrote (6086)	12/13/2000 10:46:06 AM
From: chomolungma	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6710

VG, My personal opinion is that there is no constitutional way to have set a counting standard, even if they had 2 weeks. I think the justices used the deadline as an easy way out. Wouldn't any "new" standard have to be a "new law" that would be illegal since it was written after the election took place? I think so. I see of no way that a hand recount could have taken place legally, it was doomed from the start. Bad laws and very unusual circumstances collided.

To: Valley Girl who wrote (6086)	12/13/2000 10:54:48 AM
From: ThirdEye	Respond to of 6710

The Fl SC having been put between a rock and a hard place by the USSC now makes evident the unconstitutional nature of Fl law that allows county discretion on the method of hand counting votes. It will be interesting to see just how Fl. addresses this issue-which we can only hope will be rendered moot by the implementing of adequate technology. The implications for each state, however, is a large expense to clean up the process, funds that in many cases are not available.