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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TraderGreg who wrote (1733)	11/11/2000 11:38:21 AM
From: Carolyn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6710

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To: TraderGreg who wrote (1733)	11/11/2000 12:11:58 PM
From: TraderGreg	Respond to of 6710

Let's make this whole thing a bit more complicated: From the 12th Amendment: "the person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed" What that sentence says is that if FL has failed to make a decision on its electors, its 25 electors are removed from the 538 count and the EC drops to 513 with 257 constituting a majority. To be sure, the FL Legislature also has the authority to determine who the electors will be, per Section 2 of Title 3 of the US Code. The REPUBLICAN legislature could enact a law decreeing that the electors should go to whoever wins the current recount, holding a new election, or simply designating a slate of electors outright. Meanwhile, if the FL legislature, out of fear for political bias, chooses to do nothing, the House and Senate of the U. S. have a variety of options: accept the reduced number of APPOINTED electors, wait for the FL issue to be resolved, or take over the vote themselves since no candidate hit 270. Moreover, and this gets real sticky, the House and Senate leadership could challenge the validity of newly elected Senators/House members to be seated. This is a possibility not in the House(since Repubs have a majority of states under their control already) but in the Senate it could happen. If Democrat Cantwell wins in WA, the Senate leadership could challenge her validity to be seated. Moreover, there are still questions whether Lieberman himself could be seated since he is a principal in this whole thing and whether Gore could vote to break ties on the vote for VP. Hopefully, the Congress will simply wait for the 25 and probably other electoral votes to be resolved before making anything other than a decision to appoint an "Acting" VP. TG