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...might have missed at least one opportunity for efficiency in a process that needs every minute it can get. Couldn't it have authorized the sorting to continue, so that canvassing boards could have their piles in a row and ready for a Monday-evening sprint to beat the 12th...
...electors on Wednesday if finality does not arrive to this never-final affair, and they haven't changed their schedule yet. But they may have a few days to play with: State Senate leader John McKay insisted this week that his experts had told him the 16th, not the 12th, was the true brick wall for the naming of Florida's electors. But today Republican state senator Daniel Webster pegged Wednesday again: If there is no finality, he said, we will bring finality on the 13th...
...nation of laws, and there seems to be no limit to the constitutional provisions, statutes, court precedents and common-law principles that may be called upon to determine who will be the next President. The legal battle so far has taken in issues as majestic as the 12th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and as humble as the status of the now famous dimpled chad...
...usually a routine joint session on Jan. 5 or 6 to count the Electoral College vote. If the Florida results are still at issue, an 1887 law permits the House and Senate, by a majority vote in each, to throw out Florida's electors. One reading of the 12th Amendment holds that Gore would then become President: he would have a majority of the remaining electors. But another reading says the election would then be thrown to the House to decide. In that case, each state would cast one vote, determined by the U.S. Representatives from that state. A majority...
Shevchik proved himself to be among the nation's best in his first season at Harvard last year. He placed eighth in the 200-meter backstroke and 12th in the 400-meter individual medley at NCAAs to earn All-American honors and the bulk of Harvard's scoring for the meet...