The Washington Post, November 15th, 2000
The root problem in the Florida voting deadlock is the winner- take-all nature of the dispute. No one person--not Florida's governor, secretary of state, various county officials nor the courts- -has the legal authority to decide on a compromise. All 25 of Florida's decisive electoral votes must go to either George W. Bush or Al Gore. But there is one body that has the legal power to resolve the matter--one that could act quickly and that is structured to permit a bipartisan decision. It is the only body in the nation with the legal power to change the winner-take-all situation: the Florida st...
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