FLORIDA LAWMAKERS SET TO BACK BUSH

FLORIDA’S Legislature will hold a special session on Friday to begin picking a slate of electors expected to choose Republican George W Bush as the state’s US presidential winner if the results of its disputed election are still tied up in court. Senate President John McKay said he believed the lawmakers in the Republican-dominated Legislature should nominate a slate based on the state’s provisional results – meaning Florida’s decisive 25 Electoral College votes would go to Bush, thereby giving him the White House. – Reuters