Word: counted
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...step in and select the state's 25 electors. If the outcome remains in doubt as the Dec. 12 deadline approaches, the Republican-dominated legislature may attempt simply to select the Bush electors. A more radical possibility is that if Gore is ahead of Bush in the final count, the legislature could overturn that result and certify the Bush electors...
...House and Senate will meet in what is usually a routine joint session on Jan. 5 or 6 to count the Electoral College vote. If the Florida results are still at issue, an 1887 law permits the House and Senate, by a majority vote in each, to throw out Florida's electors. One reading of the 12th Amendment holds that Gore would then become President: he would have a majority of the remaining electors. But another reading says the election would then be thrown to the House to decide. In that case, each state would cast one vote, determined...
...last time Congress decided a dispute between electors was in 1960, when Richard Nixon won the initial count in Hawaii and John Kennedy won the recount. But little was at stake then, since Kennedy already had the Electoral College votes he needed. Presumably, the Republican-dominated House would be inclined to select Bush. The prospect of Congress selecting the next President is odd enough. Making it even more surreal: the presiding officer at such a proceeding would be Vice President Al Gore...
...three constitutional experts, including Harvard's Charles Fried, to argue that the Florida Supreme Court unconstitutionally rewrote Florida law and usurped executive power. He has also set up a joint task force made up of eight Republicans and six Democrats to investigate "voting irregularities" such as the failure to count all overseas military ballots and the differing standards of the manual recounts. But if the U.S. Supreme Court rejects the Bush petition this week, all eyes will be back on the man with his finger on the constitutional trigger...
...indisputable that ballot-counting machines routinely fail to count many legitimate ballots. The Governor of Texas, one George W. Bush, signed a law treating dimpled chads as legitimate votes; the Republican candidate, George W. Bush, now realizes that only a desperate Democrat could take such a position. However, some ballots uncounted by the machines are legitimate by any standard. The Gore position is: in a tight race, let's count every legitimate ballot (and argue about the close calls). The Bush position is: throw them all away...