Is it illegal for Al Gore to run for President?

[byronius]

Since he's still the Last Elected American President, does this make him ineligible to run as a candidate in the upcoming Former/Fake United States elections?

I think not. Still, Enquiring Minds Want To Know. Perhaps he's waiting for the Actual United States elections. Crap. That would suck.

Hope Not. Still, it almost seems unfair to make him run for something he already is.

[Basileus Basileon]

1. No. He wasn't elected in 2000. Bush was.

Bush stole the Florida vote, and was elected President because of it.

[byronius]

2. I would argue, of course, that Gore won the election, and was denied the right to serve.

Splitting hairs. I was being a tad snarky, admittedly.

RIP USA, 12/11/00. Until he's permitted to serve his term, this is all bullshit to me.

[Basileus Basileon]

3. Unfortunately, legally all that matters is the Electoral College vote.

Bush won the vote of the Electoral College, and thus won the Presidency.

[byronius]

7. Bush won the electoral vote because the SCOTUS stopped the vote counting.

Truly, Basileus, I'm just being semi-humorous, ala Tom Paine. However, point still stands. By any measure, Gore is the Last Elected President Of The United States.

[philb]

11. But Bush didn't come close to winning a majority of Florida votes

as confirmed by Media recounts after the election; Gore had enough legal in Florida votes to easily win the election, the biggest numbers uncounted were in Palm Beach County and Duval County, and it had nothing to do with punch cards or chad. It was due to the Butterfly Ballots in those counties that made it possible to vote for the same person twice for President. President race on 2 pages and possible to vote for Gore on both pages; in minority areas in Duval they were even instructed to do so. But those are legal in Florida votes, yet were not counted even though they were known about. I knew about them the day of the election. And told lots of officials. Without all of the manipulations its clear that Gore would have won Florida by about 100,000 votes. It wasn't close if the votes had really been counted. The biggest swings were massive purges of legal Democratic voters, manipultion of the motor voter registration system, manipulation by Rep. operatives and counting of thousands of illegal absentee ballots- all Republican, not counting thousands of legal votes kicked out by computer in counties with butterfly ballot designs, etc.
The exit polls also showed Gore won by about 100,000 votes.

[Basileus Basileon]

12. That's true. But when we're talking about Constitutional term limits,

the outcome of the electoral college vote is all that matters.

[Lucinda]

6. Bush wasn't elected. He was selected by SCOTUS.

And to the OP yes, Gore could run.

[byronius]

9. Well, that's a relief, then. Thanks.

[seriousstan]

4. What about Kerry?

[byronius]

5. In the hopper, I would say. Next.

[seriousstan]

8. So you need Gore to serve, 4 or 8 years?, and then Kerry?

Does Kerry get 8 years or does he have to run again....or did Gore have to?

[byronius]

10. I'd say eight for both, just to be fair. Or shall we interleave?