How Florida can still recount the ballots

[Michael]

As best I can tell, there really is only one option to have the ballots in Florida manually counted and still meet the Constitutional requirements. The SCOTUS pointed the way in their opinion vacating the first Florida Supreme Court ruling.
There is one body in Florida that does not have to worry about the "safe-harbour" provision, the Florida Legislature. They can take control of the process and remove the court from the decision making. They can set the standard (I like PBC's standard as it seems to be as close as you're going to get to "clear intent&quot and then recount even the submitted voted (Broward County).

Once they get the results, they can decide and select the Electors. If the results are public and Gore gets enough votes to win, then they can still select Electors for Bush and then face the political consequences. Same for The Federal Congress and Senate. They can select the Bush Electors from the certification if they want, but they'll have to face the political consquences if the Florida Leglislature selects Electors for Gore based on the count.

That's the best I can come up with. I think the FSC has been very wrong so far in extending the deadline and in overruling Judge Sauls.

Michael

 

[woodie1]

As far as the Florida Legislature is concerned all the votes were counted the night of November 7-8th. Actually counting ballots isn't in their job description.

 

Good Lord I am so sick of hearing about this. Sorry Not directed at you, just talking to myself...

 

[ride525]

Sorry, Michael, the Republican majority in the Florida legislature seems very intent on only one thing.....making sure Governor Bush wins...

Republicans don't seem interested in counting more votes right now....after all they are ahead.....

 

[Michael]

I know that the Republicans are not very interested in counting, but it was the only way I could come up with where a standard could be set and the Dec 12th deadline would not be as much an issue.

I am convinced that if all the undervote had been counted using Palm Beach County's standard, Bush would have still won and there would have been no question about who got the most votes.

Both the Democrats and the Republicans are to blame in the ballots not being counted.

Michael