rbbomber wrote:

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> > Excuse me. What provision of the Two Thousand Florida statutes
> > authorized recount by stipulation? Florida statute required that
> > all ballots in the same county be counted by the same method, and
> > stipulation is not one of the approved methods.
> >
> > David
>
> Dear David,
> I have to ask you for that information. I believe, although I
> don't know, that machine tabulation figures were accepted for all
> ballots that were not thus rejected. If that's not your impression,
> will you let us know?
> Not incidentally, the repost of the results of NORC's nine
> scenarios, which you snipped without including a <snip> sign when you
> otherwise reposted my message (above) are:

Style: I try to include, quote, the text of article to which I
am responding. I cut my e debate teeth in Fido Net, and it was
not considered good form to waste sysop's money transmitting the
same information back and forth.

Discussion: I have snipped out the particular NORC survey
methods, because none was a simulation of a legal recount in
Florida according to the Two Thousand statute. Florida statute
required that all ballots in the same county be counted by the
same method. Neither the FSC (Florida Supreme Court or Judge
Terry Lewis ever proposed a legal recount, that is a recount of
all six million ballots.

The FSC should not be allowed to plead lack of time to conduct a
legal recount. The reason that the contest period was too short
to conduct a legal recount is that the FSC shortened the recount
period by what nine days. The FSC may not both shorten the time
allowed for the contest phase and then plead extigent
circumstances due to lack of time. Had the FSC not extended the
certification phase, plenty of time for the contest phase would
have existed.

Florida statue requires all all ballots in the same county by
recounted by the same method. This is either all by machine or
all by hand. There is no provision of Florida statute that
allows for vote counts to be stipulated. Ballots have to be
counted. The FSC, and Judge Lewis, did not propose to count
ballots.

David