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

To: Srexley who wrote (123854)	1/26/2001 4:10:52 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

As I said, the SOS could have certified the election, but accepted later amendments from recounts. If this wasn't possible then the whole section on manual recounts in Florida Election Law is moot because you can't recount a large county in 4 or 5 days. Why would she have the canvassing boards apply for extensions if she had no power to grant them? BTW, I have no problem with Katherine Harris being a Republican; I just have a big problem with her being state chairwoman of Bush's campaign. That's very different, and a glaring conflict of interest. I have said many times that I hold no brief for Gore's tactics. In hindsight, he should have let the certification go and contested the election. The circumstances (margin of error: 4%, margin of victory: 0.01%) should have entitled him to a recount, based on previous court rulings. I didn't want Gore's recounts; I wanted the court to impose a statewide recount. That being said, what would have been illegal about allowing the 4 counties that decided to do recounts to complete their recounts quickly and include the results in the final count? It would have followed the LAW (as Katherine Harris keeps saying), perfectly well as far as I can see. Correct me if I'm wrong. Both sides were scrapping down and dirty for votes. I was madder at the Republicans both from natural sympathies (though I never had much use for Gore), and from the fact that their strategy involved turning the recounts into as big a circus as possible. As for the votes being counted the same for both candidates, you raise an interesting point. Most of Gore's vote was counted on Votomatics. Most of Bush's vote was counted on OpScan machines. Votomatics have a much higher error rate. Now that the Supreme Court has shown itself so very scrupulous regarding the equal protection requirements of recounts, we will see many lawsuits arguing that these requirements should be extended to counting votes. The first lawsuits have already been filed, in fact. Should be interesting...