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To: flatsville who wrote (36312)	11/10/2000 4:10:48 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

The date of the Electoral College's meeting was set by Congress and is in the United States code. Title 3 USC provides that they will meet on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December. >>Sec. 7. Meeting and vote of electors The electors of President and Vice President of each State shall meet and give their votes on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December next following their appointment at such place in each State as the legislature of such State shall direct.<< ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The electors are supposed to be appointed on the day of the Presidential election, in whatever manner their respective states have determined. >>Sec. 1. Time of appointing electors The electors of President and Vice President shall be appointed, in each State, on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November, in every fourth year succeeding every election of a President and Vice President.<< ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ And, in fact, Florida's Electors WERE appointed on November 7. The controversy involves identifying WHO they are. As Clinton said, the people have spoken, but it's going to take some time to determine what they said. Each political party nominates potential Electors who will become the actual Electors once we know who won the election in Florida. From the Florida election code: >>103.021 Nomination for presidential electors.--Candidates for presidential electors shall be nominated in the following manner: (1) The Governor shall nominate the presidential electors of each political party. He or she shall nominate only the electors recommended by the state executive committee of the respective political party. Each such elector shall be a qualified elector of the party he or she represents who has taken an oath that he or she will vote for the candidates of the party that he or she is nominated to represent. The Governor shall certify to the Department of State on or before September 1, in each presidential election year, the names of a number of electors for each political party equal to the number of senators and representatives which this state has in Congress. (2) The names of the presidential electors shall not be printed on the general election ballot, but the names of the actual candidates for President and Vice President for whom the presidential electors will vote if elected shall be printed on the ballot in the order in which the party of which the candidate is a nominee polled the highest number of votes for Governor in the last general election.<<