If respondents are correct, the constitutional delegation to state legislatures of the power to determine the manner in which presidential electors are appointed, and Congress's effort to provide a means by which a state's selection of electors will be determined in a timely and conclusive manner according to rules and procedures adopted before the election, may easily be circumvented.
But Mr. Price added, "If Gore is certified in Florida, I think you have to say it's at least a possibility that two sets of electors will be presented, and it's a possibility we have to be studying and thinking about".
But how does it work today?The country is a constitutional monarchy, so electors will be voting solely for their local members of parliament (MPs) rather than directly for a head of state (such as the president in America).
"It is a promise by Congress that if you do three things a state's electors will be conclusive in Congress" should some other slate claim to be the real one, said John C. Yoo, a conservative constitutional law professor at the University of California at Berkeley.
In a second ballot, electors will be able to choose what status they prefer, but only from a menu of non-territorial possibilities that Congress has already deemed to be acceptable: statehood, independence in free association with the United States, and outright independence.
They got it.The upshot is a primary in which all registered electors will be able to vote, providing they are not members of opposition parties and are willing to sign a declaration of support for the coalition's guiding principles.
"The software provider has resolved the issue which means that, if any postal votes have been issued to these electors, they will be cancelled and none of these electors will be shown as eligible on the electoral registers to be used at polling stations on 23 June.
Instead, they say, that date merely gives the state an assurance that its selection of electors will be recognized as conclusive should there be any challenge in Congress.
JUSTICE GINSBURG -- Well, could the state legislature, at least now, say, in light of all this confusion, we enact a law today saying this is the way electors will be selected.
I will not vote for a candidate other than Hillary Clinton on the hope that Republican electors will be so moved by my sacrifice that they will change their own vote(s).
