On Wednesday 23 August 2006 23:13, Mihira Fernando wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > Technically, yes. That's how the Constitution designed it. > > > > Practically, though, no. > > > > Citizens, dead people, and illegal immigrants vote for Electors who > > are pledged to vote for a specific candidate. > > So if the Electors suddenly decide to vote for candidate A while being > pledged to vote for candidate B (maybe because their bank balance > suddenly got increased by ,say, 10 mil dollars), then what happens ? > does Candidate B become the president ? Has the people got no say in this ? Something similar to this happened due to pilot error in Florida in 2000 and by probable act of sabotage on Diebold's part in Ohio in 2004. Candidate B becomes president, people have no say. -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): baloo@ursine.ca
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