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The possibility of an appointed electoral going electoral college member voting on his own would be eliminated but everything else would remain the same.
An ingenious alternative solution is the national popular vote plan, whereby states mandate that all their electoral votes go to the national popular-vote winner.
As electoral choices go, it's not far off choosing to be ruled by a dry, whispering voice taunting you from an antique mirror.
Under current law, all of California's 55 electoral votes go to the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote statewide.
In Washington, the Republican House majority leader, Tom DeLay, told his colleagues said that should Florida's 25 electoral votes go to Mr. Gore, the House and Senate could reject them if it decided they were tainted.
"Financial and electoral sleaze go hand in hand – if a dodgy politician is willing to break election law, they will not hesitate to siphon off taxpayers' money for their own ends.
Gov. George W. Bush is 366 votes behind Vice President Al Gore statewide, and last week's certification of the election results means that New Mexico's five electoral votes go to Mr. Gore.
It called a rally in Cairo's Tahrir Square on June 19th, threatening pressure from the street unless the SCAF backs down.Should the electoral commission go so far as to rule Mr Shafiq the actual winner, in the face of evidence to the contrary, violence will probably erupt.
These divided verdicts are the product of laws passed in 48 states (Maine and Nebraska are the exceptions) that mandate that all their electoral votes go to the popular-vote winner in that state, even if he or she fails to win a majority.
The problem is that the legislatures of forty-eight of the fifty states have directed that a hundred per cent of their electoral votes go to the plurality winner in that state, and never mind what the nation's voters might prefer.
