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To: Pedro Joaristi who wrote (15005)11/12/2000 3:38:58 PM
From: X Y Zebra  Read Replies (1) of 65232
 
If the West Palm Beach results are not certified, does
that mean that the entire Florida electoral college vote
is thrown out, or is just the county vote total deleted
from the total state count?


I am no expert... but you may want to read this

Electoral College may not need Florida electors to choose president

-- On December 18, electors from all 50 states are scheduled to pick the president. An 1887 law fixes this as the date for electors to cast their ballots, constitutional law scholars said Friday.

cnn.com

And for some laughs...

Message 14789978

"In the craziest of its scenarios, Hollywood would never have dared imagine a similar suspense," the newspaper said. "But rather than put the United States in the lineup of banana republics, this impossibility proclaiming George Bush or Al Gore the winner can seem a sort of perverse homage to democracy … In America, the glory of democracy is its uncertainty."

Or... as Henry Louis Mencken said,

"Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage"

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