Not enough time for a recount!

["Stephen Cooke" <scooke@uidaho.edu>]

Visionaries,
CNN reports:
In a setback for the Gore campaign, officials in
                  Florida's Miami-Dade County abruptly called off a
                  hand recount of presidential ballots, saying they
                  can't complete it by Sunday's deadline. Instead,
                  the three-member board voted unanimously to use
                  their original returns compiled immediately after
                  the November 7 election. At that time, Gore won
                  328,702 and Bush collected 289,456 votes. The
                  action reverses a decision made earlier in the day
                  when the panel said it would limit the county
                  recount to 10,750 "undervotes" -- ballots on
                  which no vote was registered by counting
                  machines. Now, no additional recounts will be
                  added.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/11/22/president.election/index.h
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Steve

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Bob Hoffmann [mailto:escape@alt-escape.com]
Sent:	Wednesday, November 22, 2000 11:00 AM
To:	vision2020@moscow.com
Subject:	RE: The FL Supremes

At 09:53 AM 11/22/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>         Try this.
>http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2000/resources/fla.sc.opinion.pdf

Wow,
It's a heck of a read, but I'd recommend everyone take an hour to review
the Florida Supreme Court decision.

If you don't have an hour, my summary is that elections must reflect the
will and intent of the people, and not be decided by any slavish adherence
to procedure.  This principle may only be violated in extreme
circumstances, which do not currently obtain in Florida in this morass that
we call the presidential election.


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