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MH1

(17,600 posts)
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 11:33 AM Oct 2016

Technical question: isn't it too late for Trump to drop out?

Are there any states where the ballots could/would be changed in time?

If it's possible for him to drop out and the ballots be changed, then I wish the open mic comments would have been held just a few days longer.

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Technical question: isn't it too late for Trump to drop out? (Original Post) MH1 Oct 2016 OP
people have started voting. It's too late mucifer Oct 2016 #1
That's only some states. MH1 Oct 2016 #5
His basket of deplorables wouldn't allow it. grossproffit Oct 2016 #2
Yes, it is. Several states are already accepting mail-in ballots. MineralMan Oct 2016 #3
What if this is all orchestrated? raging moderate Oct 2016 #4
My ballot came yesterday JenniferJuniper Oct 2016 #6
Trump will be on the ballot, but he drops out I believe the same rules may apply if the R candidtate clutterbox1830 Oct 2016 #7
Ben Ginsberg was less than clear earlier. He said, OnDoutside Oct 2016 #8

MineralMan

(146,317 posts)
3. Yes, it is. Several states are already accepting mail-in ballots.
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 11:47 AM
Oct 2016

Too late to change the ballot and notify all of those voters that they need to vote another time.

It won't happen, and Trump won't drop out, anyhow. His egomania won't let him.

raging moderate

(4,305 posts)
4. What if this is all orchestrated?
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 11:52 AM
Oct 2016

There is something suspicious about all this. The GOP refusal to do their duty and vote on the President's Supreme Court nominee is unprecedented and bizarre. Trump's calls for his supporters to use their Second Amendment rights and actively stop some people from voting are also bizarre. What if they plan to screw up this election and fog up this election so much that a handicapped Supreme Court can't solve it, slipping in their trick of jimmying the voting machines, then do more stuff like that fake "Brooks Brothers" protest crowd that turned out to be mostly GOP congressional aides, then throw the election into the gerrymandered House of Representatives and elect whoever the Koch Brothers please? I know they used the Supremes during the Selections of the Bush/Cheney regime. But I read that a Democrat was told by a sneering GOP operative, "We are now the masters of reality. After this, reality is whatever we say it is. And while you are reeling from our new reality, we will change it again." We need to stay vigilant.

JenniferJuniper

(4,512 posts)
6. My ballot came yesterday
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 11:54 AM
Oct 2016

Going to visit my mom today so she can watch me vote for the first woman president, something my late grandmother, a huge Hillary supporter, had very much wanted to live to see.

clutterbox1830

(395 posts)
7. Trump will be on the ballot, but he drops out I believe the same rules may apply if the R candidtate
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 12:07 PM
Oct 2016

dies or is incapacitated. The party can reconvenes and elect a new candidate if the original ticket garners 270 electorate votes.
This is what I'm told.

OnDoutside

(19,957 posts)
8. Ben Ginsberg was less than clear earlier. He said,
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 12:07 PM
Oct 2016

the GOP would have to go to every state's court and get the name changed. Re already mailed in votes, he said that they were for the State Electors implying that the replacement would get Trump's votes. I don't see how they could claim those votes.

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