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THE DECISION - TALKING POINTS (#1, #3, and #5 are best) 1. The Supreme Court took a single word of conflict... Sect. 102.111: "...all missing counties SHALL be ignored..." Sect. 102.112: "...such [late] returns MAY be ignored" ...and wrote EIGHT PAGES in its decision to explain in great detail why it decided that the MAY clause should be used, and the SHALL provision -- the one with the specific time of certification deadlines(!) -- was THROWN OUT. 2. Now with this new-found freedom, the need for a vote-counting deadline was suddenly erased. "Cool!", they say -- now the handcuffs are ...

FLA STATUE, TITLE IX, CHAPTER 97, "Qualification and Registration of Electors", Part 1 "General Provisions" 97.12 Secretary of State as chief election officer.--The Secretary of State is the chief election officer of the state, and it is his or her responsibility to: (1) Obtain and maintain uniformity in the application, operation, and ***interpretation*** of the election laws. (2) Provide uniform standards for the proper and equitable implementation of the registration laws. (3) Actively seek out and collect the data and statistics necessary to knowledgeably scrutinize the effectiveness of election laws. (4) Provide technical assistance to the supervisors of elections on ...

Yeah, Gore CURRENTLY leads Bush. But for that campaign to claim the Moral High Ground of letting the Will of the People prevail is preposterous!! NOTE THIS: 52% of the voting population voted Gore OUT.

Discrepencies of not, I believe that the chance of actually having a formal re-vote -- in any Fla. county -- are almost zero. Here's a bunch of reasons why: 1. It is completely without precedent. There might be a judge or two willing to make that call, but based on the evidence at hand, there is no grounds. The courts are VERY reluctant to permit the people a new date to "change their minds." But it IS possible to 'judge shop' in Fla. (I've seen it in the context of abortion protest injunctions). HEAR ME WELL ON THIS ONE: 2. ...