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To: Arizona Carolyn
Except they are evidentally very serious about this -- an ex Clintonista was on H&C this week and he was dead-on serious about they are stopping the inaguration on January 6th (in court) and Kerry WILL take office -- he even had Alan Colmes madder than a wet hen before the show was over.

I don't think they have the authority to do so. Here is the section of the Constitution regarding the election of the President:

Article II

Section 1. The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his office during the term of four years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same term, be elected, as follows:

Each state shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector.

The electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for two persons, of whom one at least shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves. And they shall make a list of all the persons voted for, and of the number of votes for each; which list they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate. The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted. The person having the greatest number of votes shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such majority, and have an equal number of votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately choose by ballot one of them for President; and if no person have a majority, then from the five highest on the list the said House shall in like manner choose the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by States, the representation from each state having one vote; A quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. In every case, after the choice of the President, the person having the greatest number of votes of the electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal votes, the Senate shall choose from them by ballot the Vice President.

The Congress may determine the time of choosing the electors, and the day on which they shall give their votes; which day shall be the same throughout the United States.

The legislature of the state determines how they select electors. The Congress only has authority to count them, unless there is a tie. The state of Ohio has already selected their electors, the electors have cast their ballot, and they have been counted by the Senate. There is no provision to stop the inauguration of the duly elected President.

gitmo

64 posted on 12/26/2004 1:37:36 AM PST by gitmo (Thanks, Mel. I needed that.)
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To: gitmo

Guess these people didn't bother to read the Constitution --this guy (wish I remembered his name) was so smug and sure of himself -- and Alan Colmes was coming unglued telling him they had to "get over it" and get back to trying to put the Democratic party back together; to which this guy stated that Alan worked for Fox NEws so what did he expect from him -- at that Alan looked like he wanted to strangle him but informed him -- strongly -- that FOX never tells him what to think or say and this guy made all liberals look bad -- it was very entertaining. Someone who knows how should find the transcript!~


75 posted on 12/26/2004 8:37:21 AM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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