One was the Electoral Count Act.

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They were enfranchised in 1962, by amendment of the Commonwealth Electoral Act, although at that time their enrolment was voluntary rather than compulsory, as with all other voters.

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What's worse, none of the Justices seemed willing to buy his creative theory that the Electoral Count Act had been violated.

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Olson, a stellar appellate lawyer who worked in Reagan's Justice Department alongside Kenneth Starr, argued that the Florida court's ruling amounted to the creation of a new law after the election--a breach of the federal Electoral Count Act of 1887, a law previously untested in court and exhumed recently by G.

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