Gore Campaign to Propose Florida Supreme Court Set Standard for Hand Counts
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Meanwhile we want to check in with the Gore campaign. We didn’t have a chance to hear from them at the end of the last hour.
Jonathan, can you give us a hint as to what we will hear from Mr. Warren and Mr. Daley?
JONATHAN KARL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Absolutely. What you are going to be hearing from Warren Christopher and Bill Daley is a direct response to this effort by Katherine Harris to consolidate all legal matters and get them into the Florida state supreme court.
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I’m also told that when Warren Christopher and Bill Daley come out and speak in a few minutes that what they will be doing is also offering a counterproposal for a more expeditious conclusion to this matter that would be through the courts. moncler jacket outlet But details on that are not yet available. But that’s what we’ll be hearing, basically a rejection of what Katherine Harris is saying, in terms of her cheap moncler jackets petition to the state supreme court and a counterproposal. That is what we will be getting from Christopher and Daley.
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KAGAN: All right, Jonathan Karl, we will have you stand by. Once again, we are standing by to hear those comments live from Warren Christopher and Bill Daley. When they begin, we will hear them live here on CNN.
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So clearly, it’s moncler jackets cheap a two pronged attack here on the Palm Beach moncler outlets usa County Commission that’s counting or wants to count these ballots, they haven’t done womens moncler jackets it, didn’t start today because of a couple of reasons. One is because of the secretary of state’s action going to the supreme court, and they’ve been given legal guidance here, that maybe they should hold out and wait until they get some sort of moncler jackets mens an idea from the Florida supreme court of what they can do or can’t do. And they’ve also gone to the Florida supreme court to try and settle the dispute from yesterday where the secretary of state’s office division of elections said: You can’t count because it wasn’t a machine problem that’s leading you to want to recount. And the attorney general saying: Well, you can count. So they’ve gone moncler jackets toronto to the Florida supreme court to ask for resolution in that.
And they are also waiting and stopped didn’t count this morning because they are waiting for a state court over here. The Democrats went to state court to ask a judge to force the commission here to count those pregnant chads, or dimpled ballots. In that first recount of the sample precincts over the weekend, they did not count moncler jackets men those.
monlcer down jackets The Democratic party says voter intent, if moncler jackets kids there is if it’s not discount moncler jackets punched through but you see that there is a dimple there, there was intent. So they are waiting for a judge to rule on that as well, Stephen. So there moncler jackets for women are lots of reasons why we are in a holding pattern here. No count, but as it continues to drag out, it looks as if we would be into the middle of next week before they could finish the count here in Palm Beach County, if, in fact, they can ever get started on a hand recount of the 431,000 votes Stephen.
cheap moncler FRAZIER: John, two quick questions before we leave you there. If I understand some of your moncler outlet woodbury comments cheap moncler jackets outlet earlier, they are ready, willing, and able to begin the count. Are there still moncler coats for kids people standing moncler outlet online store by, dozens of them, moncler outlets uk in teams, to moncler coats actually handle the ballots? And secondly, before we leave you, give us a headline again on where we are. moncler outlet canada Governor Bush is ahead in Florida right now as it stands; is https://www.moncler-jacket-outlet.com that right?
ZARRELLA: By 300 votes, and quite clearly, moncler outlet store in Palm Beach County, when they did Discount Moncler Coats the sampling, Vice President Gore had a net gain of 19 in the three precincts. moncler outlet usa And the Democrats say, if you extrapolate that out, that could be 1900 votes, if you go ahead and recount the entire county. So it is a critical, critical issue on whether they end up recounting here. So that is definitely the case, as far as the recount of the ballot goes.
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And they do have workers standing by, waiting to start the count, and that is costing the county money, every day, bringing people in. We don’t know how much. But for everything that is going on, it is costing Palm Beach County a lot of money to be sitting in a holding pattern Stephen.
cheap moncler jackets FRAZIER: Can you imagine, John, at the end of all of this, a special assessment to taxpayers to pay for it all? John Zarrella, thank you very much.
buy moncler jackets KAGAN: That would be the kicker there. We are getting word here at CNN that we expect that that circuit court in Palm Beach County should have a decision on those ballots, and which count, and who gets to count them, about 10 minutes from now. We will have it for you as soon as it is available.
cheap moncler outlet Meanwhile, the other thing we are waiting on is Warren Christopher to come out and speak on behalf of the Gore campaign, And we understand our Jonathan Karl, even though you are in Washington and this announcement will be made in Tallahassee, you have been able to moncler outlet receive word exactly on what Warren Christopher will have to say.