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Hello silly person, the illegality would rest in the count continuing after the Hall of Doom, er, Supreme Court had ruled that it could not go on. So DUH, asking for the recount is NOT illegal.
Gore to the Florida Court: "I say old bean, mind if we recount?"
Florida Court: "Recount you say?"
Gore: "Oh dear yes, we believe that there are some irregularities in the previous count and want to make sure that everything was on the up and up so that all votes get counted."
Florida Court: "Dear me, I don't see anything wrong...."
Bush: "STOP! Stop I say! I'm winning and see no need to recount the votes."
Hall of Doom, er Supreme Court: "We concure. Stop the recount. The franchise must be subordinate to Florida law. Afterall, you have no Constitutional right to vote for the President of the United State."
America: "Whoa, concept."
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The franchise must be subordinate to Florida law.
Um, well... according to the constitution... it is.
The constitution would allow for the legislature, with NO popular vote at all, to name the electors. They could just as easily say, "OK, you have to stand on one foot to vote for president."
No, wait. That'd be discriminatory against those who don't have feet...
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Do you mean the Constitution or just any old constitution...maybe the constitution for the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks?
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United States Constitution, 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..."
The legislature gets to decide how electors are chosen, PERIOD. They could say that the state Comptroller gets to pick his however many closest relatives, and they'd get to be the electors, if they were so inclined.
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Oh, ok, so you were talking about the Constitution. The one for the whole of the United States. That whole non caps thing just threw me right off.
Language is imprecise as you know.
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Concede? Buh??? Concede what? My god what's with you people?
Apparently I'll have to keep my humor to 10 year old level.
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After a manner of speaking, the VP IS elected seperately. Each elector casts two votes, one for each office. It's just very rare that an elector will vote for people that run on different tickets.
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I swore I wasn't going to post in the Flameboard as part of my New Year's resolution, but I've already violated that a few times. So anyway, I'll just note quickly and without judgement that having a seperately elected President and Vice-President would no longer work under the present political system. The Vice-President, once the most bored man in D.C., is now an intricate part of many administrations.
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