I just posted something to another list on what I think is going to
happen - below is a slightly edited version of what I wrote...
Having talked to a friend of mine who is a Prof. at Harvard Law, I'd
suggest
that anyone who's interested start looking at the election of 1876.
It
seems to be the closest precedent to this case. There are, so far as
I am
aware, virtually no precedents for a revote. The legal test to
institute
one is so extraordinarily high that it is virtually impossible that
one
will occur. The odds of one happening are almost zero. We know who
will decide
the election - the Electoral College. The problem is that we (may)
have a
disputed slate of electors from FL. In 1876 this was resolved by a
bipartisan
commission that, unfortunately, voted 5-4 on party lines. The
Democrats
and Republicans then made a trade - the GOP got the White House, and
in return,
the Democrats got the end of Reconstruction and the removal of
Northern soldiers
from the Southern states. Given the tradition of judicial deference
to the
legislative branch on such matters, it seems most likely that this
will end
up in a similar Congressional commission.
********************Gautam "Ulysses" Mukunda**********************
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