Posted on 04/08/2008 8:05:57 PM PDT by airedale
The media didn't talk about it but in the 2000 election contest the Democratic strategy if they couldn't get the vote count to go their way was to tie the results up in the court so that Florida wouldn't be able to field electors. This would have cut 25 electors from Bush's total and given Gore the election. The Florida state legislature was dominated by the Republican party who let it be known that they could appoint the electors and with the Supreme Court decision the Democrats effort to win the election by disenfranchising Florida was shelved. In the primary the Democrats once again are disenfranchising the entire state as far as the Democratic primary goes. This should be a talking point. It would really tick me off if one party had a habit of this technique (they also tried to suppress the Military vote in at least 2 elections from what I've read in the press so there is a pretty good track record of their using this technique). I'll bet Florida voters would react negatively too if they realized what the Democrats real strategy was in 2000.
The media didn’t talk about it but in the 2000 election contest the Democratic strategy if they couldn’t get the vote count to go their way was to tie the results up in the court so that Florida wouldn’t be able to field electors. This would have cut 25 electors from Bush’s total and given Gore the election.
But if this had happened, Gore still would not have had a majority of total electoral votes. Wouldn’t the House of Reps. have decided the election then?
But I do remember how the Republican controlled Florida legislature was set to appoint the electors from Florida because of the court cases surrounding the election. The Supreme Court ruling in 2000 made it a moot point, but the legislature there would have appointed Republican electors who would have voted for Bush.
A tad off subject, but once upon a time, the House had to
vote for President, because the electoral vote counts ended
in a tie. they voted 36 times before the tie was broken.
In 1800, the winner of the elctoral votes became President,
and the next highest became Vice President.
It’s not the majority of all electors but the majority of the electors present when the vote is cast in the college.
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