Reply #3: Leave the Florida electoral voters' position vacant.

[rogerashton]

The constitution does not say that all states must participate in an electoral college. There have been three electoral colleges in which some states did not participate -- and in two of the three cases (1864 and 68) Florida was one of the states that did not participate.

So the proper decision would have been: if Florida cannot count its votes in time, hold the College without Florida.

The existence of this precedented response to the Republican sabotage of vote-counting in Florida is indirect evidence that some Supreme Court justices were parties to the Republican conspiracy to sieze power through the coup d'etat of 2000. That would (I submit) make them rebels under the 15th amendment, and thus ineligible to participate in public office until "reconstructed" by an act of Congress.

Bottom line: we have not had a legal president nor supreme court since 2000.