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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SecularBull who wrote (71593)	11/12/2000 4:47:25 PM
From: ColtonGang	Respond to of 769667

From CNN.........Yet another scenario Fast-forwarding to 2000, there is yet another scenario under which Florida electors could cast their votes even if the state fails to certify the ballot by December 18, according to Bruce Fein, a constitutional scholar and lawyer in McLean, Virginia. Electors for Gore or Bush could still cast their ballots and leave it up to Congress to challenge individual votes if they choose to on January 6, when the electoral votes will be unsealed and tallied, Fein said. Fein rejected the interpretation of the 12th Amendment and the 1877 law that says choosing electors is a state function. Because Congress has the ultimate authority to accept or reject an electors vote, the issue of whether an elector has been appointed is a matter of federal constitutional law, Fein said. What's most likely to happen (is) both the Gore and the Bush electors would go and cast the ballot whether or not there was an official certification by Florida, he said. Why would a state want to disenfranchise itself?