The media didn’t talk about it but in the 2000 election contest the Democratic strategy if they couldn’t get the vote count to go their way was to tie the results up in the court so that Florida wouldn’t be able to field electors. This would have cut 25 electors from Bush’s total and given Gore the election.
But if this had happened, Gore still would not have had a majority of total electoral votes. Wouldn’t the House of Reps. have decided the election then?
But I do remember how the Republican controlled Florida legislature was set to appoint the electors from Florida because of the court cases surrounding the election. The Supreme Court ruling in 2000 made it a moot point, but the legislature there would have appointed Republican electors who would have voted for Bush.
A tad off subject, but once upon a time, the House had to
vote for President, because the electoral vote counts ended
in a tie. they voted 36 times before the tie was broken.
In 1800, the winner of the elctoral votes became President,
and the next highest became Vice President.