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...penalties for deviating from the popular vote. But in most of those states, the sanctions are relatively minor - in Oklahoma, for instance, it's a $1,000 fine. Of the states that are currently in some dispute, Florida, Iowa and New Hampshire don't try to bind their electors; Wisconsin, New Mexico and Oregon do. But it's worth noting that no elector has ever been prosecuted for being unfaithful. Throughout U.S. history, only nine electors out of some 18,000 have violated their pledges. It's going to be hard to find one who's going to break...
...that can be said to be without sin, so hardly one vote in one precinct of America is beyond the challenge of legal ingenuity. Democrats don't like the butterfly ballots of Palm Beach County, Florida? How about the homeless with their Democratic bribes of Lucky Strikes in Milwaukee, Wisconsin? How about those illegal aliens in California? Two can play the game. Let's have a look, your honor, at California, Washington, New Mexico, Iowa.... We nuke Moscow and Minsk, they nuke Chicago and L.A. Let the months and years roll on. The little pathogens with law degrees can Jarndyce...
...clock passed midnight, the outcome of the election hinged on a few remaining states too close to call, including Washington, Wisconsin and the previously declared Florida...
Harvard and Dartmouth are now the only Ivy League teams remaining in the NCAA tournament, as Princeton fell to Wisconsin yesterday...
...Bush spokesman Karl Rove is casually telling the same reporters there is an automatic recount under way in the largest county in New Mexico, which could of course tip that state to his candidate. One may soon come to Iowa, which also narrowly went for Al Gore. And maybe Wisconsin and Washington too. And don't forget Oregon, which hasn't even reported a final tally yet. And then there's California - the state's top Republican says his state's 1 million ballots well may tip the electoral brass ring to Bush. (Gore's people confined themselves to murmuring...