Reply #9: Did you advise Jeb Bush or anyone in a position to advise the

[Samantha]

Florida State legislature to issue a public threat that even if a recount handed a popular vote victory to Gore, the Legislature would appoint its own slate of electors, as it was empowered by the state constitution to do?

We know the Constitution of the United States requires the slate of electors to be decided on the day the Congress sets aside for the people to vote. The slate of electors must be decided in the manner set out in the State Constitution. Florida's state Constitution dictated the slate of electors would be selected as a result of the popular vote.

It is unconstitutional to change the way the slate is selected AFTER the day of the national election.

Did you render this advice to Jeb Bush to condone this threat? If you did not, do you know who did?

As a judge who has been presented to the American public as a Constitutional expert, do you condone this type of public lying to influence the outcome of an presidential election?

If you did not influence public officials in Florida to make this illegal, unconstitutional assertion, what would you publicly say now to he or she who did?