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

To: Ilaine who wrote (116270)	12/15/2000 6:10:25 PM
From: mst2000	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

CobaltBlue - Fair question - the answer is we'll never know. The S. Ct. majority made sure of that. I personally think it could have been completed by 12/18, easily, especially if the stay hadn't been entered. The counters and court personnel seemed to be making great progress when the stay was entered (Dade was within 2 hours of being completed, for example). But another rather important thing to remember is that even 12/18 is not a "hard" deadline (it is a date specified in Title 3, to be sure, but was a deadline in even less of a sense than 11/14 was a "deadline" in Florida for sumbitting tallies for certification purposes). Title 3 provides that if the Electoral Votes are not "cast" by a state by 12/18, a notice is to be sent to the delinquent state inquiring where their electoral votes are and asking that the votes be submitted ASAP. Which means that electoral votes can be cast, delivered and accepted after 12/18 if Congress so chooses, which they would have no reason not to do except if they are attempting to gerrymander a particular outcome (and in fact, in 1960, Hawaii's electoral votes were submitted on January 4, several weeks late, and were counted in full by the Congress on January 6). You should read Breyer's dissent. It hits this issue head on and scores big time. But the bottom line is that shutting the recount down before it was completed was a cowardly act of a politically motivated bloc of justices, and forever leaves this "election" ending with a question mark, and not a period. We will never know if the recount could have been completed because somebody put a bullet in its head before that question could be answered. Too bad for all of us.