Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> Clarence1898 <cla### [at] comcastnet> wrote:
> > According to the 12th amendment if no person has a majority of the electoral
> > vote, the House of Representatives will choose the president from the three
> > candidates with the highest vote.
>
>   So what exactly happened in 2000? (I have to admit I didn't follow that
> debacle too closely.)
>
> --
>                                                           - Warp

Without Florida's electoral votes, neither candidate had a majority.  So whoever
won Florida's popular vote won their electoral vote and thus the election.
Since the vote count was so  close in Florida, the big fuss was over the recount
of ballots.  Some ballots were excluded because it wasn't clear which candidate
it was for.

Isaac.

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