Word: selecter
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...presidential race is in doubt, a state's presidential electors "may be appointed...in such a manner as the legislature of such state may direct." Florida speaker of the house Tom Feeney ordered up a legal analysis that concludes that the legislature has the right to step in and select the state's 25 electors. If the outcome remains in doubt as the Dec. 12 deadline approaches, the Republican-dominated legislature may attempt simply to select the Bush electors. A more radical possibility is that if Gore is ahead of Bush in the final count, the legislature could overturn that...
...legislature has ever used the 1948 law to select electors, and it is not clear if the American public would accept it. Another potential minefield: passing a bill to select electors would require the approval of Governor Jeb Bush, the candidate's brother...
...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 of the congressional delegations, 28, are Republican. If a President were chosen in this manner, the U.S. Senate would then select the Vice President. The Senate will be evenly divided, 50-50, if Democrat Maria Cantwell hangs on after this week's recount in Washington State...
...Congress decided a dispute between electors was in 1960, when Richard Nixon won the initial count in Hawaii and John Kennedy won the recount. But little was at stake then, since Kennedy already had the Electoral College votes he needed. Presumably, the Republican-dominated House would be inclined to select Bush. The prospect of Congress selecting the next President is odd enough. Making it even more surreal: the presiding officer at such a proceeding would be Vice President Al Gore...
...team's discovery is the latest development in decades of research on how just how people select certain bits of visual information for special attention...