[Robert A Cook PE]

As best I can tell, there is no penalty for NOT delivering an elector slate. The Founders (and everyone else, apparently) though it ludicrous that any state would voluntarily not take part in an election & deny its citizens the right to vote.

... The USSC ruled that it was a violation of the “one man, one vote” to only partially count and SINCE they couldn't count the whole state, Gore's partial recount was invalid.

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What is NOT clear is, what if a state simply refuses to certify its count/electors and doesn't submit at all?

And yet, the very existence of the (Democrat Party's so-far-politically-successful) “Combined Popular Vote” initiatives at their OWN STATE and Local levels! - means that the state democrat parties (and the local governments and populations that control those low-level state entities) DO NOT CARE if they (as a “state” are not represented in national voting. These local politicians ONLY CARE about getting the single (democrat party) national victory “and the Supreme Court for which it stands.”

[Liz]

... The USSC ruled that it was a violation of the “one man, one vote” to only partially
count and SINCE they couldn't count the whole state, Gore's partial recount was invalid.....

When the USSC stepped in ......due to brilliant legal moves by Bush's lawyer, former Secy of State James Baker..... they ordered the count be stopped.

This seemed to be an acknowledgement of the Democrats' proclivity to count, recount, then recount until they had all the votes need to win.

In his book about losing the election, Gore related that everytime his lawyers moved in, Bush's lawyer were one step ahead of them.

[LS]

Cynical. They will certainly care if they set precedent that is constantly used against them to exclude electoral votes.