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Article: Electoral College casts decisive votes
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- December 19, 2000
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Electoral College casts decisive votes, elects Bush president
Washington Post, Associated Press
Tuesday, December 19, 2000
The Electoral College, an 18th-century concoction that rarely
attracts more than a footnote and yawn, reasserted its potency Monday
by electing George W. Bush as president, even though Vice President
Al Gore won a half-million more votes nationwide.
The country's 538 electors gathered in the 50 state capitals and
District of Columbia to cast their all-important ballots, acting as
constitutional proxies for the more than 100 million Americans who
voted Nov. 7. They also sent a powerful reminder that, because of
compromises made 210 years ago, a vote in some states is ...