If the Republican Party chooses a champion in the next couple of months, he will to some extent cede the leadership of his party; if it fails to choose a champion, as many people are now speculating, the country will be agog at the prospect of a party convention at which the nomination is still up for grabs.
At one point, he quotes a letter in which Martin Luther, the father of Protestant Christianity, considers the idea that God might offer salvation to dead people who failed to choose it while they were alive: "Who would doubt God's ability to do that?" But Bell doesn't mention Luther's deflating answer to his own question: "No one, however, can prove that He does do this".
Since Florida has not failed to choose, its legislature cannot, under federal law, intervene further.
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That meant that 13% of Sarasota voters failed to choose a House candidate, compared with roughly 2% in neighbouring counties.
Even if the Florida courts ultimately find that Mr. Gore wins the state's electoral votes, Florida will not have "failed to choose".
He failed to choose Mr. Dinkins as his preferred choice in answering a hypothetical question about his choice among the city's previous three mayors.
States should deploy only voting equipment that meets the Federal Election Commission's technical standards and that allows voters to recast a ballot if they have mistakenly failed to choose a candidate, or have chosen two.
Presidents of Italy are chosen by Parliament and customarily serve a single seven-year term; Mr. Napolitano agreed to run for re-election only after Parliament repeatedly failed to choose a successor.
