ELECTION: Live coverage of (what's left of) the Florida hearing.
November 20, 2000 1:18 PM Subscribe
ELECTION: Live coverage of (what's left of) the Florida hearing. I heard a solution I could live with: machine recount all the Florida ballots, and hand count anything that bounces. Came from the Bush camp, surprisingly enough.
I don't know that the FSC has the jurisdiction to do it... but I suspect they pretty much have the jurisdiction to do any damn thing they please.
An appeal could be made to the SCOTUS, but I suspect they'd bounce it: it *is* a state election: you're electing *electors*, not a federal officer.
A flash of light: *that's* why you don't elect the president directly: it would then not be a state-jurisdiction election.
posted by baylink at 1:54 PM on November 21, 2000
An appeal could be made to the SCOTUS, but I suspect they'd bounce it: it *is* a state election: you're electing *electors*, not a federal officer.
A flash of light: *that's* why you don't elect the president directly: it would then not be a state-jurisdiction election.
posted by baylink at 1:54 PM on November 21, 2000
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