Word: mannerly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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During the next four years, we should all contact our local election officials and demand that an accurate voting process be put in place. It might be expensive and would probably include massive voter-education drives and an improved ballot design. But in whatever manner our vote is submitted, it must be accurately counted the first time and not be subject to interpretation. BILL WATT Columbus...
...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 by the U.S. Representatives from that state. A majority of the congressional delegations, 28, are Republican. If a President were chosen in this manner, the U.S. Senate would then select the Vice President. The Senate will be evenly divided, 50-50, if Democrat Maria Cantwell hangs on after this week's recount in Washington State...
...being responsible. And in spite of their anger, and in spite of their real fear at what is happening in our country, they are protesting in the only right and helpful way, peacefully and lawfully. They not only care, but they're caring in a responsible and constructive manner...
...chance before Dec. 12 (now a week away) to grab the spotlight's harsh glare, and possibly a place in the partisanship Hall of Fame. Republicans in favor of moving say the Constitution - "each state shall appoint, in such a manner as the legislature thereof directs, a slate of electors" - and federal law backs them up. They say Gore's backup plan is for no slate of Florida electors to go to Washington...
...Monday, the Select Joint Committee on the Manner of the Appointment of Presidential Electors, which met last week, issued its report on the issue, decisively recommending the special session...