[EL] Accepting the results of the election

[JBoppjr at aol.com]

Actually Al Gore petitioned for the recount and refused to concede the  
election (that is why the case is called Bush v. Gore).  He committed the  
horrifying and unprecedented act that Rick and Rob now claim to be upset  about. 
 Jim Bopp
 
 
In a message dated 10/19/2016 11:34:50 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
coney at lillieconey.net writes:

An  election outcome so close only a few hundred ballots in Florida 
triggered an  automatic recount.  The litigation as I recall resulted from legal 
action  in several counties in the state, of which 1-2 reached the Supreme  
Court.  The Court stopped the statewide recount. The Court reached a  decision 
to allow the recount to proceed, but without sufficient time to  finish.


Sent from my iPhone

> On Oct 19, 2016, at 11:15  PM, Kelner, Robert <rkelner at cov.com> wrote:
> 
> Of course a  presidential candidate can contest results in the 
exceptionally rare case of a  truly close election. But neither George W. Bush nor Al 
Gore would ever have  hesitated to say, prior to the election, that they 
would respect the outcome  of the election. That hideous distinction is now 
uniquely owned by Donald  Trump.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Oct 19, 2016,  at 11:08 PM, "JBoppjr at aol.com<mailto:JBoppjr at aol.com>"  
<JBoppjr at aol.com<mailto:JBoppjr at aol.com>> wrote:
> 
>  Some of those on this list serve may have taken note of this exchange:
>  
> Chris Wallace: "Will you accept the result of this election?"
>  Donald Trump: "I will look at it at the time. ... I will keep you in  
suspense."
> Hillary Clinton: "That's horrifying."
> 
> Let  me say that I think that Clinton's reaction was as phony and as it 
was absurd.  Al Gore did not accept the results of the 2000 election. He sued 
for a recount  in Florida which was not resolved until early December by a 
decision of the US  Supreme Court. Only then, when no other legal recourse 
was possible, did he  accept the results of the election. This, of course, 
was Gore's legal right to  do. It would be ridiculous for Trump to say in 
advance that he will accept the  election day count, if it would be appropriate 
to institute a recount.
>  
> State laws provide legal remedies to contest election or ask for  
recounts under certain circumstances. It is perfectly appropriate for a  candidate 
to use these if legally available. Jim Bopp
>  _______________________________________________
> Law-election mailing  list
>  
Law-election at department-lists.uci.edu<mailto:Law-election at department-lists.uci.edu>
>  http://department-lists.uci.edu/mailman/listinfo/law-election
>  _______________________________________________
> Law-election mailing  list
> Law-election at department-lists.uci.edu
>  http://department-lists.uci.edu/mailman/listinfo/law-election

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://webshare.law.ucla.edu/Listservs/law-election/attachments/20161019/5edc87f2/attachment.html>