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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (112049)	12/12/2000 1:01:04 PM
From: Ellen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

While the Constitution says that a state legislature gets to pick the method by which electors are selected, it does NOT say it can pick them itself (although, had it set that up as the method before the election it might (maybe) be legal). (But probably not; the people of the state are guaranteed a "republican form of government", and this probably does not qualify. I'm sure the legal eagles on the thread can come up with other, better reasons why the USSC would not like this.) And there is a federal law that says that election rules cannot be changed after the election, and this appears to run afoul of that. From what you are saying then, the Florida state legislature can't do what they are planning to do.