2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumA Candidate’s Death Could Delay or Eliminate the Presidential Election
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The presidential election could be delayed or scrapped altogether if conspiracy theories become predictive and a candidate dies or drops out before Nov. 8. The perhaps equally startling alternative, if theres enough time: Small groups of people hand-picking a replacement pursuant to obscure party rules.
The scenarios have been seriously considered by few outside of the legal community and likely are too morbid for polite discussion in politically mixed company. But prominent law professors have pondered the effects and possible ways to address a late-date vacancy.
Theres nothing in the Constitution which requires a popular election for the electors serving in the Electoral College, says John Nagle, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, meaning the body that officially elects presidents could convene without the general public voting.
Its up to each state legislature to decide how they want to choose the states electors, Nagle says. It may be a situation in which the fact that we have an Electoral College, rather than direct voting for presidential candidates, may prove to be helpful.
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/08/30/a-candidates-death-could-delay-or-eliminate-the-presidential-election-u-s-news/
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So the real question here: Why is this article showing up now? This election? What do they know that we don't?
Just found it a strange article given the rhetoric that has been tossed around by one side in this campaign season
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Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)liberal N proud
(60,302 posts)But maybe Trump is the one who is really sick. All those positive tests.
scheming daemons
(25,487 posts)....and I wouldn't put it past pro-Putin actors in this country to try to do the same to Hillary.
Jerry442
(1,265 posts)It certainly deserves serious discussion and scrutiny. Freakin' scary that Breitbart is bringing it up just now, though.
liberal N proud
(60,302 posts)MineralMan
(146,192 posts)liberal N proud
(60,302 posts)I felt it was necessary that we discuss it.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)A candidate dropping out or dying will not alter the constitutional mandate for a presidential election on November 8 and any suggestion to the contrary is simply BULLSHIT!
Demsrule86
(68,355 posts)liberal N proud
(60,302 posts)Demsrule86
(68,355 posts)DFW
(54,059 posts)The question should remain hypothetical.
I think the greater danger is that some crestfallen Republican will try his own "Second Amendment solution" on Trump, although most of them seem too enamored of their artillery to waste any ammunition on the likes of him.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,283 posts)DFW
(54,059 posts)onenote
(42,383 posts)I know why you posted it, but it didn't occur to you to spend 30 seconds doing a google search on the issue before you posted something with an inflammatory bullshit headline?
http://teachinghistory.org/history-content/ask-a-historian/20431
FSogol
(45,363 posts):faepalm: