To: Ilaine who wrote (116692 ) 12/16/2000 2:58:37 PM From: mst2000 Read Replies (2) | Respond to A few things, The Florida Supreme Court ruled that what was "erroneous" was her advice to local canvassing boards telling them that the grounds upon which a manual recount could be approved by them were limited to situations of fraud, etc. That came up in the context of her efforts to prevent the manual recounts from proceeding BEFORE the original certification deadline. If the situation had been reversed, that is, Gov. Bush had been seeking the manual recounts, and a Florida election official who was co-chair of the Gore campaign (and actively seeking an appointment in a potential Gore administration) "erroneously" advised canvassing boards that they could not conduct a recount as Bush had lawfully requested, causing them to miss the so-called deadline, and then notified them that she would not exercise discretion clearly given to her under the law to allow the certification to be amended to include the recount results, I think the Bush campaign would have gone ballistic. Can you at least bring yourself to admit that?
