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hab mal das Wichtigste zusammengesucht:ich denke nämlich,dass es klar war ,dass der 3.County Dade das Auszählen nicht schaffen kann,weil sie wohl nicht einfach weitergezählt haben als Harris dagen entschied,wie dies in Palm Beach und Broward der Fall war.
Und offenbar entscheiden die Wahlmänner erst am 18.12.
Gore's chances in Florida took a heavy hit as Miami-Dade County officials pulled the plug on its hand recount of paper ballots. Officials in the state's most populous county said they couldn't complete a full recount by a Sunday deadline, opting to stick with results from the Nov. 8 machine recount.
Miami-Dade's bombshell means Gore must look to Broward and Palm Beach counties if he hopes to erase Bush's 930-vote official, but still uncertified, lead. But Gore made only modest gains in those counties on Wednesday.
Broward County completed its hand recount including absentee votes - except for 2,000 disputed ballots. Its three-member canvassing board planned to reconvene Thanksgiving Day to continue going through the remaining absentee and questionable ballots.
Over in Palm Beach County, hand recounts proceeded leading up to the circuit court ruling on late Wednesday afternoon. Circuit Judge Jorge Labarga's ruling means this county's three-member canvassing board must consider some 10,000 questionable ballots - ones that have no punch through, but perhaps show an indentation - that had been set aside while Labarga considered the case.
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Consider this. On December 18 - the first Monday after the second Wednesday of next month - all of the electors will meet in their state capitals across the country to cast their ballots. The new Congress will then count the votes and officially certify the winner when it convenes in January. But here's the catch: less than half of the states have laws that require their electors to cast their ballots for the candidates for whom they are pledged. Over the years, only seven electors - also known as "faithless electors" - have gone their own way, though without ever changing an election's outcome.
Then again, this is no ordinary election - or this all would have ended when we thought it had. Just in case you were wondering, Florida's electors are not bound by their state's law to cast their ballots for the popular vote winner in their state, whomever it's declared to be. And, if there's no clear presidential winner in Florida by December 12, the state's GOP-controlled legislature could step in and name the electors under federal law.
In dem oben angegebenen Link finden sich Beispiele aus der Geschichte,die sehr interessant sind
