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

To: Srexley who wrote (583382)	6/16/2004 12:21:39 PM
From: Mr. Palau	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Scott, as the last presidential election shows, every state counts. Brief response to your question about the manual recount case: - The statute I cited authorizes a candidate to go to any county for a manual recount. If the manual recount shows a discrepancy with the machine tabulation, then a full manual recount is authorized. - The Fla. SOS contended that a full manual recount could be conducted only if there was a malfunction with the voting tabulation system, even tho nothing in the statute said that. - So Gore had to go to court. The Fla. Supreme Court unanimously agreed with Gore that the statute did not require a mechanical malfunction and the United States Supreme Court did not disagree with this conclusion. Rather, the Court ruled for Bush on federal equal protection grounds. If you want to know more detail about this, I commend Jeffrey Toobin's book for your reading enjoyment. Heading out for the day, be nice.