u: In theory, in practice it's perfectly feasible for electors to vote against the will of the population of a state.
In practice, it is usually tied to the popular vote, and there is no reason it wouldn't have been in this case.
u: And in reality if Gore knew what he was doing, he should have asked for a statewide recount, not selecting four individual counties.
I agree. But the fact that he miscalculated does not make the established facts about Republican shenanigans in the 2000 elections a mere "conspiracy theory." The legal voters who were turned away from the polls were not "theoretical."
u: But if Gore knew what he was doing the election would not have come down to four counties in one state. That Americans are spineless and resort to conspiracy theories to explain events with perfectly prosaic, mundane causes, well......
The "perfectly prosaic, mundane cause" of a Republican administration engaging in the age-old practice of voter caging and purging rolls.
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In practice, it is usually tied to the popular vote, and there is no reason it wouldn't have been in this case.
u: And in reality if Gore knew what he was doing, he should have asked for a statewide recount, not selecting four individual counties.
I agree. But the fact that he miscalculated does not make the established facts about Republican shenanigans in the 2000 elections a mere "conspiracy theory." The legal voters who were turned away from the polls were not "theoretical."
u: But if Gore knew what he was doing the election would not have come down to four counties in one state. That Americans are spineless and resort to conspiracy theories to explain events with perfectly prosaic, mundane causes, well......
The "perfectly prosaic, mundane cause" of a Republican administration engaging in the age-old practice of voter caging and purging rolls.