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REGARDING WHEN ARNOLD TAKES OVER:

FROM THE CALIFORNIA INSIDER, DAN WEINTRAUB

"Even if Davis loses, he stays for a while
Secretary of State Kevin Shelley said today that absentee voting so far is up more than 50 percent from last year’s election, even after a week of dead time while the federal courts put the election on hold. Shelley said 1.1 million Californians have voted already, compared to about 700,000 who had voted by this time in 2002. About 2.8 million Californians have requested absentee ballots. Shelley believes this to be a record but isn’t sure because counties haven’t kept records on this in the past.

In other news, Shelley laid out a timeline for a transition if Davis loses, and it’s going to shock some people: a new governor would probably not take office until Nov. 15, 39 days after the Oct. 7 election, and possibly as late as Nov. 25.

Shelley said the counties have 28 days to complete their official canvas of the vote, then 7 days to get Board of Supervisor sign-off. Shelley then has four days to certify the election. Finally, the winning candidate can take up to 10 days to be sworn in if he or she chooses."

If Shelly doesn't move quickly, I see a short political career for him!

I heard of Fox there were almost 3.5 million requested and 2.8 million received.

Also, since when did Calif. care about the absentee ballots? If the election is won by enough votes by one candidate or side (yes/no) that 2.8 million votes wouldn't make a difference either way...they don't bother to count them because of the cost. Or that's been their SOP I was aware of.

He's just protecting himself in the event of a worst case scenario. He even admitted to CNN earlier today that counting of the remaining absentee ballots would be completed by tonight.

Given the margin of victory, there's nothing stopping the counties from certifying their respective totals in a matter of days. There was a lot of talk about delaying the original petition back in July, but look how fast it qualified once the ball got rolling.

I've stated this on a previous thread, and I'll restate it here again: the Dems optimal defensive position is to expedite Arnie's administration so that they can immediately begin attacking him; it makes no sense and is a complete waste of political capital to look like fools contesting the results.

Many here would like to think the Dems are fools, but make no mistake, they are professionals and know damn well how the game is played.