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...which one he opens? A: Well, the only electoral votes that Gore could open are ones "certified" by the governor. (This is different from state officials certifying the election.) If the governor certifies the Bush-Cheney electors and the Gore-Lieberman electors send in a rival ballot, it's ignored. The only exception here is if the Senate and House object to having the Bush-Cheney electoral votes counted. As for Gore, his role under the Constitution and federal statute is pretty much just reading the ballots or breaking a tie in the Senate over the vice president...
...pundits, the partisans and a fair number of citizens are treating the Florida ballot dispute like a constitutional crisis on the scale of Seven Days in May. Former Secretary of State James Baker, the solemn, senior aide to the Bush camp, says, "Our process is at risk," and we are "on the cusp of having this thing spiral out of control." Bush's strategy chief, Karl Rove, makes a legal battle sound like a civil war. Even a non-alarmist like CNN's Jeff Greenfield likened our democracy to a beautiful antique car sliding over a cliff...
...time for America to take a deep, cleansing breath, even an audible Al Gore sigh or two. After that, let's all halve our coffee consumption, put the histrionics in a lockbox and take the time we need to try to ameliorate the unsatisfying results from a questionable ballot that has rendered Florida's 25 electoral votes fuzzy...
...that the legal process should take its course. First Palm Beach: "We continue to explore the possibilities of what can be done to remedy the unfairness of thousands of residents of Palm Beach County who believed they were voting for Al Gore... Our legal team has determined that the ballot in Palm Beach County was unlawful." Then the recount(s): "Waiting is unpleasant for all of us, but suggesting the outcome of a vote is known before all the ballots are properly counted is inappropriate...
...impossible. Dick Nixon did it back in 1960, even when he was fairly certain there had been a little hanky-panky back in the ballot boxes of Texas and Illinois. He did grudgingly and reluctantly, but he did it. And then he ran successfully just eight years later. Assuming that Bush survives his first term and performs in an unspectacular fashion, you could conceivably be ensconced in the Oval Office by January...