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At close of business today, the names on the ballots will be set in 30 states. (Original Post) MohRokTah Aug 2016 OP
Let me be the first to say: FSogol Aug 2016 #1
let me be the second. KMOD Aug 2016 #3
They're stuck with that jackass. nt LexVegas Aug 2016 #2
Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of folks. highprincipleswork Aug 2016 #4
How does Evan McMullin get on these ballots? Funtatlaguy Aug 2016 #5
To get on all fifty state ballots takes over 880,000 signatures. MohRokTah Aug 2016 #8
They are dead. The GOP is finished. nt onehandle Aug 2016 #6
Reports of their death is greatly exaggerated. sofa king Aug 2016 #7

Funtatlaguy

(10,887 posts)
5. How does Evan McMullin get on these ballots?
Wed Aug 10, 2016, 12:11 PM
Aug 2016

Just because he and the National Journal and the Mormon Church are backing him?
Will he get on these ballots as an Independent?
Doesn't he need a certain number of signatures per state?

 

MohRokTah

(15,429 posts)
8. To get on all fifty state ballots takes over 880,000 signatures.
Wed Aug 10, 2016, 12:50 PM
Aug 2016

Not sure what states he may have already qualified for, but there is no way possible for him to be on all 50 state ballots. It's already too late for that.

sofa king

(10,857 posts)
7. Reports of their death is greatly exaggerated.
Wed Aug 10, 2016, 12:38 PM
Aug 2016

Ironically, it was Democrats who provided the legal argument which allows ballots to be changed after the deadline, when "Rug" Torricelli was replaced with Frank Lautenberg for the New Jersey Senate race in 2002, twenty days after the ballot deadline.

That argument was in turn cynically pinned in part to the Supreme Court decision which stole the election for George W. Bush in 2000, guaranteeing that the U.S. Supreme Court would not intervene against the NJ Supreme Court.

The good news is that it will cost Republicans many millions of dollars in legal fees in states across the nation, but consider also that most states are controlled by Republican legislatures and conservative judges at the top. So it's an easy change and the GOP won't have to think too hard about how to do it.

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