If the court dismisses Mr. Gore's appeal of the contest first, the Bush brief says, the earlier case sent back by the Supreme Court in Washington will be moot, because the same Republican electors will be sent to the Electoral College.
T. D. Allman, a stickler for our 18th-century Constitution, argues that Dick Cheney, appearances to the contrary, is not actually vice president of the United States because, although the president and vice president can be from the same state, electors from that state can't vote for both of them, and Cheney, like Bush, lived in Texas.
These same electors, who now have no legal accountability to respect the popular vote, and as proposed by the Hamilton movement, are now free and encouraged to privately collude and select a candidate who may not have even appeared on the general election ballot.
The Lib Dems' gripes are justified but the Tory case is weakening.About once a decade Parliamentary constituencies are redrawn to ensure they contain roughly the same number of electors (that is, eligible voters).
"I'm no longer sure simply repeating a key message or phrase has the same resonance with electors that it once had," he wrote in a blog for PR Week.
The legislature of each State appoints the same quantity of electors as the number of Congressmen House Representativess plus Senators) in the manner each State sees fit.
There were fusion tickets in which all of Lincoln's opponents combined to support the same slate of Electors in New York, New Jersey, and Rhode Island, but even if the anti-Lincoln vote had been combined in every state, Lincoln still would have won a majority in the Electoral College.
Along the same lines, 38 Trump electors could vote for Clinton, handing her the majority vote and thus, the presidency.
The Constitution did not require that the states all choose their electors on the same day.
