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A18
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« on: January 30, 2005, 06:03:21 PM »
The Florida legislature decides what electors to appoint, under the Constitution, period. They don't have to hold a popular vote, and if they do, they don't have to follow it.

Regardless of what I'm sure are your idiotic, obnoxious, discredited views on the Florida 2000 result, it's irrelevant.

Florida legislature appointed Bush's electors. He won.
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A18
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« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2005, 06:12:04 PM »
Tip: when trying to get someone to take you seriously, don't post an AOL Hometown page. Also, no Geocities.

And actually, they can constitutionally change the way of appointing electors after 'election day,' provided that it's before the electoral college votes.

But that's not what happened. Florida's SC tried to invalidate Florida statute.
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A18
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« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2005, 08:15:52 PM »
Which was against the law.
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A18
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« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2005, 08:24:48 PM »

LMAO! What a bunch of sh**t!

The Supreme Court ruled that they could only take into consideration the current, exact circumstance, and that therefore the case should not be used as precedent.
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A18
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« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2005, 08:45:00 PM »
I didn't read the AOL page until just now. I just assumed it was some conspiracy crap before that.

And I'm ignoring it because it's a bunch of sh**t, not because it's on AOL.

I'm not going to waste my time arguing with you (plus, I don't want another "What would you do about global warming?" topic), but see this topic: https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=14409.60
The reason the Court stopped the recount is because there was the potential for irreperable harm. If Gore won that last recount, then the result was overturned by the Court, large segments of the country would have viewed the election as illegitimate (much larger than currently do). The recount would only count if the Court upheld its constitutionality, but a recount could remove legitimacy from the incoming President if it had gone forward and showed Gore with more votes.
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A18
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« Reply #5 on: February 02, 2005, 06:23:51 PM »
Quote from: DanimalBr on January 30, 2005, 07:43:04 PM
Dole serves just one term like he said he was going to do if he won in 96

He said that? Can I get a source?
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