Word: appointer
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...legislature could reconvene and appoint electors itself. Amazingly, the U.S. Constitution does not require that electors be popularly chosen--only that the states come up with some method for appointing them. Under federal law, the Florida legislature has until Dec. 12 to pick new electors. It could even vote to let the Governor pick the electors--but don't count on it. Florida has a G.O.P.-controlled legislature, but it would be toast if it usurped popular control of an election...
...battle for the Senate came when Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan, who was killed in a plane crash on Oct. 16, beat out Republican incumbent John Ashcroft. It was too late to remove his name from the ballot, and Carnahan's Democratic successor as Governor said he would appoint Carnahan's wife Jean, 66, to the Senate seat if her late husband won. "My husband's journey was cut short," she said last week. "And for reasons we don't understand, the mantle has now fallen upon us." Some Republicans grumbled about her right to assume that mantle, but Ashcroft, gracious...
...choose the electors on their own. With one eye on that prerogative, the Gore team is stuck in a sort of legal Catch-22: They want to exhaust all of their legal options without extending the deadlock so far as to give the Florida legislature the right to independently appoint Bush-friendly electors...
...next in line is the president pro tempore of the Senate, the venerable Strom Thurmond ("pro tempore," by the way, is fancy lingo for "oldest guy"). This of course has led to lots of ageist chuckling (the most outrageous: the Onion's assertion that a President Thurmond would appoint Orval Faubus as Secretary of Slaves...
...complete plan and does not intend to do so by himself. Rather, he has asked that all interested students come to the IOP and help create and flesh out a new system. Recognizing that it will take a great deal of time to do this, he is planning to appoint next semester's committee chairs. This is not an effort to take away student control, but an acknowledgement that it is necessary to have a transition into the next semester. Sen. Pryor has announced that his door is open and that he will gladly receive telephone calls and e-mails...