Vanity: What happens if a candidate dies before the election.

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[LexBaird]

Does anyone know what the legal process becomes if, after a Presidential candidate gets the nomination of a Party but before the General Election, that candidate dies or becomes totally incapacitated?

I bring to mind when the Missouri Senator Mel Carnahan died in a plane crash and was elected anyway, with his widow being appointed. Does the Party just get to substitute in whomever they want?

With Bernie having heart issues and Joe slipping deeper into dementia (or back in 2016, with HRC passing out regularly), is there any established law or procedure to handle this sort of thing?

[Stosh]

” What happens if a candidate dies before the election.”

He gets to vote for the Democrat.

[Larry Lucido]

I think all threads should just have half headlines and half sentences, followed by ellipses....

Like that guy NewtRush....

You know who I’m talking....

[Brilliant]

The party will nominate a new candidate, probably the vp choice.

[Osage Orange]

I dunno dude...

But I am a male lesbian...

[dp0622]

lol

Well in some people’s eyes (the insane), if a man has gender reassignment surgery and likes women, then he is a male lesbian :)

[Dilbert56]

Believe the outrage was that SCONJ allowed Frank Lautenberg to replace a failed (corrupt) candidate using a law for replacing a dead/disabled candidate.

[Osage Orange]

Well...no...I love women..and I'm a dude.

So...I'm a Male Lesbian....

[clearcarbon]

"What happens if a candidate dies before the election.

[LexBaird]

GFY.

Period.

[Oscar in Batangas]

“”if you’re a dem your wife gets the nod””

AND you still get to vote...maybe twice

[dp0622]

True!!

But how does a man (de blasio) marry an actual lesbian..

Sounds like a joke from a woody allen movie

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Your question is flawed in several ways.

There is not one general election. There are 51 elections, one in each state and one in the District of Columbia. Each of those elections is run by a state or the district. That means the laws of each state and the district applies to its election. There are 51 answers to your question.

In most states and in the district, it depends how far before an election a candidate crumps. The general rule is that if the candidate crumps before the ballots have been printed and distributed, the party can substitute a new candidate.

Another flaw in your question is that you seem to believe you actually vote for the POTUS/VPOTUS. You do not do so. You vote for a slate of electors pledged to vote for the POTUS/VPOTUS candidates put forth by the parties. Those electors vote for candidates when the actual POTUS/VPOTUS in the presidential election which is held in the state capitals on the same date in December. If a candidate crumps between the 51 elections in November and the electors’ casting their votes, the electors can vote for a living individual (who will probably be “approved” by the party whose candidate crumped.)

By the way, the answers to your flawed question are contained in the Constitution of the United States of America.

[LexBaird]

Thanks to those who answered seriously. I was looking for the actual party procedures.

[UnwashedPeasant]

They will just prop him up and let the teleprompter speak for him.

Think Obama 2012.

[dsrtsage]

JIn that case, Hillary Clinton automatically gets the nomination

[xp38]

Yeah the outrage was corrupt Torricelli wasn’t dead.

[boycott]

Arkancide?

[sphinx]

In both parties, the official rules are adopted by the Convention. The order of proceedings is important. The conventions will assemble this summer under the rules adopted by the last convention. I'm not going to look it up now, but my recollection is that the first relevant procedure would be the presentation of credentials and the seating of the delegates with proper credentials. In 1968, it was at this stage that the democrats blew themselves up. The black racist wing of the democrat party staged a coup against the white racist wing and objected to the seating of a couple of duly elected state delegations (including, if I recall correctly, Illinois, the host state). The challenge was sustained by the committee of the whole, and Jesse Jackson-approved rump delegations were seated to replace delegates duly elected by their state parties. It was all very Leninist. Instead of a representative body consisting of members put forward by the various state parties, the democrats established the principle that the de facto central committee could control its own membership. The subsequent democrat experiment with superdelegates followed in the same vein. The democrats are addicted to a self-selected boss system.

Once the delegates are seated, the committee of the whole will move on to other business. A report from the rules committee and adoption of the rules for the next cycle would be in order. Nominating speeches and the selection of the presidential ticket come later. Normally the adoption of the rules is a perfunctory exercise. This year may be different.

[arthurus]

If it is the Democrat candidate the DNC will ring in anyone they want regardless of established rules and it will be accepted. The DNC could arbitrarily switch out their candidate in the last three weeks and it would be accepted. DNC rules are totally moment by moment and Republicans just say “NO fair!” and accept it as done .

[Pollster1]

What if they are gay...?

That's already been decided. The gay Kenyan from Chicago, via Indonesia and Hawaii, wins by definition, even if massive vote fraud is required to make it happen.