Word: stated
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...that's awakened even some Floridian exiles who didn't bother to cast their ballot. Suggestions in the Israeli media that legitimate absentee ballots without a postmark would be accepted until November 17 had even sent some scrambling for ways to get their ballot papers off to the Sunshine State before then. Pat Buchanan may be tearing his hair out. Then again, he got pretty good mileage out of Florida's Jewish retirees on Election...
...indeed. We're all waiting for the final recount from the Sunshine State, and assuming some consensus is reached by December 18, the Democratic or Republican slate of electors will be certified to vote in the state capital. Their ranks include Diane Glasser, a National Democratic Committeewoman from the Fort Lauderdale area, and Tom Slade, the former chairman of the Florida State Republican Committee...
...York, where the outcome is already decided (in favor of Al Gore), New York's Democratic electors are starting to make plans for their winter trip to Albany, where, according to N.Y. secretary of state spokesman Scott Trent, the monetary rewards are paltry, but the sense of history is overwhelming...
...sure. In the morning, there's a formal introduction, and all the electors are brought in alphabetically. Then at noon, the secretary of state formally calls electoral college to order. After that, the electors have a roll call and pose for a group photograph. Then everyone has lunch in the capitol, and at 1:30 they reconvene for vote...
...Federal code requires each state to send their results via the United States Postal Service, postmarked no later than December 19. Then, on January 6, the national tally takes place in Washington. And although there are seven copies of the results, only about half of them go to D.C. One copy goes to the president of the U.S. Senate (a.k.a. Al Gore), two go to the national archives, two are held in Albany by the state secretary of state, and the last two are held by the chief federal justice of the region. That's the case in every state...