RE: Florida Electorial defection threat!

2000-11-15 Thread Trei, Peter

If you go back to the thread I started last week
'A strange election scenario', you'll find that I
raised this possibility the day after the election.

It would take at least two faithless electors to
swing the election to Gore. One would make it
a dead heat, and send the decision to Congress.

[It's been pointed out that Bush's lead in
Florida is less than the margin of error of
the various counting methods. For all 
rational purposes, the election there is
a tie. But elections are not a rational process,
and must arrive at single anointed winner. A
coin flip would be as fair as the various
machinations underway.]

Peter

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 A Florida Electoral delegate for Dubya, (an unknown
 number of electoral votes), is threatening to vote
 for Gore. Apparently she is free to do so.
 
 Her name is approximately Berta Morajelo, sounded
 Spanish or Cuban. Reported on MSNBC TV, who's WWW
 sucks rotten toads, so I don't visit it anymore.
 




Re: Florida Electorial defection threat!

2000-11-15 Thread Declan McCullagh

The story is cited on perpetualelection.com. --Declan

On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 04:12:35AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 A Florida Electoral delegate for Dubya, (an unknown
 number of electoral votes), is threatening to vote
 for Gore. Apparently she is free to do so.
 
 Her name is approximately Berta Morajelo, sounded
 Spanish or Cuban. Reported on MSNBC TV, who's WWW
 sucks rotten toads, so I don't visit it anymore.