Word: picked
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...House can't decide who should be President by Jan. 20, when Bill Clinton leaves office, what happens? A: A number of things could happen. The Senate could pick a vice president, with 51 Senators voting for either Lieberman or Cheney, and one of those two men would become President...
...state legislature fix this? A: Yes. The legislature could reconvene and appoint electors itself. Amazingly, the U.S. Constitution does not require that electors be popularly chosen - only that the states come up with some method for appointing them. Under federal law, the Florida legislature has until Dec. 12 to pick new electors. It could even vote to let the governor pick the electors - but don't count on it. Florida has a GOP-controlled legislature, but it would be toast if it usurped popular control of an election...
...assume a total nightmare. The electoral college doesn't pick a president, the House and Senate don't pick a president - all by Jan. 20. What happens? A: Clinton has to leave office and, under the Presidential Succession Act, Strom Thurmond, the president pro tempore of the Senate, becomes President...
...frighten the Bush camp. On the confusing "punch card" ballots, some voters did not punch through the hole and left a little paper flap hanging. A machine may not recognize this punch as a vote, but a human being might, which is what the Democrats are hoping. They could pick up a thousand votes or two this way; the first may have already given them an extra 1,457. On Saturday morning, Baker announced that the Bush campaign had gone to federal court to block any manual recount...
...campaigns had already disintegrated and re-formed like little blobs of mercury. Partisans outside the circle were starting to pick up clubs and sticks of their own. "The longer this goes on, the less control the people at the center have," says a Republican Party official. "The great illusion in Austin and Nashville is that they can control the tens of millions of Americans who are interested in this...