Question I have

[FreedomAngel82]

I just thought about this and it could be nothing but better to ask then to wonder eh? I remember watching the counting of the electoral votes and hoping and praying a senator would stand up to the Ohio votes. Of course we all know how that went. My question is dealing with this. I remember one state voted for Edwards instead of Kerry or Bush. Now, why would they do that? Would that count with the Kerry ticket or just Edwards himself? What state was that and did they count that state in with the Kerry/Edwards ticket? If this wasn't counted on the official tally with the Kerry/Edwards ticket but just Edwards himself how many EC votes would that have him at? Again this could be nothing so I was just wondering about this.

[libertypirate]

1. It counts to Edwards....

Only question I have if bush, cheney, and kerry were found to fraud the election would edwards be the president?

[Wilms]

3. No. We'd have Dennis Hastert for Prez.

http://www.usconstitution.net/consttop_succ.html

[ginnyinWI]

2. It was Minnesota

They had about 10 or 11 electoral votes, I seem to remember. It was a mistake, because when they asked who had voted that way, nobody fessed up. So everyone thought they voted for Kerry for prez. So yeah, 1 electoral vote went to Edwards. I really don't know what would have happened if that vote had been crucial! Maybe they would have had the vote over again.

[FreedomAngel82]

4. So it didn't count after all?

I just remembered about that and thought how strange it was someone voted for Edwards instead of Kerry. Did the vote go to Kerry after all?

[jwirr]

5. It sounds to me as if the election was

already lost when Minnesota's turn to vote came up so they used this method to show their support for Edwards.

[FreedomAngel82]

6. Ah

I just thought that was a strange thing.

[vince3]

7. It happened in Minnesota

One elector wrote in Edwards' name instead of Kerry's. This gave Kerry 9 of MN's electoral votes and Edwards one. So, as it stands, Kerry has 251 electoral votes and Edwards has one. This was passed off at the time as an honest mistake, and nothing more. I don't know though. Bill Bored mentioned on Saturday night in the long thread in this forum, that if it could be revealed that IA, NM, and NV were stolen, the 40,000 vote combined difference would swing the electoral college into a 269-269 tie (IA, NM, and NV account for 17 electoral votes combined.) if Kerry had 10 in MN - and not 9.
Maybe the republicans paid a dem elector in MN to write in Edwards' name in case the theft of IA, NM, and NV are revealed. It would be nice to know how in the hell a dem elector could make such a dumb mistake on the most important thing that person was doing that day. The crooked totals in the electoral college stand this way: Bush 286, Kerry 251, Edwards 1. So, as Bill Bored said, Kerry is only trailing in the ec because of the 40,000 votes that supposedly decided IA, NM, and NV.

[FreedomAngel82]

8. Strange indeed

I just remembered about that and thought I'd ask. Has anybody looked into that? Because surely they would've written in Kerry's name and not Edwards.

[Amaryllis]

9. Now that's a very interesting point when you look at it that way.