Last Tuesday John Kerry 'conceded' the election to George Bush. Is this actually any sort of legal status? The election is not John Kerry's or George Bush's to give away I presume. At the end of everything, the government still has to tally up the final count of votes, right? It must just be a de facto admission that "I'm not going to win this," but only the final vote count is the de jure act that determines the winner in each state.
That is, theoretically John Kerry could prematurely concede, and only later on, when all the votes have been counted and certified, in fact find out he's the winner.
Of course, this is not ever going to happen. When the candidates are spending more than a quarter-billion dollars each in their campaigns, they'll cling to even the slimmest chance of winning.
Posted by Nils Blutig at November 10, 2004 10:35 PM | TrackBack