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To: Dave B who wrote (61516)11/19/2000 6:36:25 PM
From: Zeev Hed  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 93625
 
Dave, actually, in the Constitution, the language is more or less "... a majority of the appointed electors..." If Florida does not appoint electors, than the majority is 257 and Gore has it. I doubt it will come to that. I think that Florida will send an electors delegation and it will be either republican or democratic. I am more worried about electors from states legally allowing "voting conscience", and fear that that "conscience" can be tampered with if the price paid for "sleeping well at night" is high enough. Since that trick would work only if Bush gets the Florida delegation (271 electors?), it seems that the Dems will have to do some real dirty politics. I hope (but not trust) they will abstain from tampering with the electoral college. After all, they are riding on trying to find the real "will" of the voters.

Zeev



To: Dave B who wrote (61516)11/19/2000 10:52:01 PM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 93625
 
Hi Dave B; Re the electors. If enough electors are convinced to vote for a third party, i.e. someone better suited for President than GWB or ATG, they could throw the contest into the House. But the house doesn't have to vote for either party's man. Instead, they could pull a "smoke filled room" and put up some other guy, acceptable to both aisles. That would be historic...

-- Carl


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