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---------------------- Forwarded by Vince J Kaminski/HOU/ECT on 11/17/2000
05:01 PM --------------------------- Robert Johnston 11/17/2000 04:43 PM To: Mike McConnell/HOU/ECT@ECT, Gary Hickerson/HOU/ECT@ECT, Jeffrey A Shankman/HOU/ECT@ECT, Joe Gold/LON/ECT@ECT, Mark Schroeder/LON/ECT@ECT, Vince J Kaminski/HOU/ECT@ECT cc: William Stuart/HOU/ECT@ECT, Jeff Kinneman/HOU/ECT@ECT, Michelle D Cisneros/HOU/ECT@ECT, Pushkar Shahi/HOU/ECT@ECT, Paul Pizzolato/HOU/ECT@ECT, John Greene/LON/ECT@ECT, Ellen Su/Corp/Enron@Enron, Steve Jacobellis/NA/Enron@Enron, Eric Scott/HOU/ECT@ECT, Kristin Walsh/HOU/ECT@ECT, Trena McFarland/NA/Enron@Enron, Scott Tholan/Corp/Enron@Enron, Kristin Walsh/HOU/ECT@ECT, John A Cote/HOU/ECT@ECT, Cynthia Sandherr/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Chris Long/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Jeffrey Keeler/Corp/Enron@ENRON, James D Steffes/NA/Enron@Enron, Shane Dallmann/LON/ECT@ECT, Aaron Armstrong/LON/ECT@ECT, Jurgen Hess/LON/ECT@ECT, Martina Angelova/LON/ECT@ECT, J Christopher Champion/HOU/ECT@ECT, Jim Roth/EU/Enron@Enron, Richard Shapiro/NA/Enron@Enron Subject: URGENT- Election Update 11/17b Everything the Gore campaign was hoping to hear from Judge Lewis this morning they heard from the Florida Supreme Court this afternoon. Voting 7-0 on its own motion, this very activist court of all Democrats ordered Secretary of State Harris not to certify the vote "until further order of the court." This is a massive victory for Gore (and more than even the Gore forces expected) and completely reverses the devastating body blow dealt by Lewis this morning. A hearing is scheduled for Monday at 2 pm on the issue of the manual recounts. What this means is the counting will go forward on a 24-hour basis in Palm Beach and Broward counties. This also saps the Bush campaign of much of the positive PR momentum they had built up as we head into the weekend. The justices set a hearing time Monday to begin hearing arguments for a final ruling in the matter, but this quick ruling on appeal is extremely favorable to Gore and should allow the counties time to get real votes tallied and leaked out to the public. Republican observers in the counties have been doing their job and objecting so strenuously to every possible problem that they have prevented Palm Beach from finishing even one precinct over the past two days. That has kept any numbers from leaking to the public as of this writing. But now the Democrats have until at least Monday to get some numbers out in public. The slow pace of the recount augurs poorly for a final resolution of the election. Dade County, Florida's most populous has just announced that they will recount over 1 million ballots--which they say could take up to a month. We note that the NASDAQ is off 12 percent since election. Prolonged uncertainty is only bad news for the markets, as the world waits for a sense of direction about US leadership on a range of issues from high oil prices to the Mid-East peace process to economic uncertainties in Argentina and in major currency markets.
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