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

Posted on 03/29/2020 2:23:19 PM PDT by 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?


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KEYWORDS: anothervanity; elections; law
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To: LexBaird

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

He gets to vote for the Democrat.


41 posted on 03/29/2020 2:59:55 PM PDT by Stosh
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To: humblegunner

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....


42 posted on 03/29/2020 3:00:13 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: LexBaird

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


43 posted on 03/29/2020 3:00:20 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: dp0622
I dunno dude...

But I am a male lesbian...

44 posted on 03/29/2020 3:03:18 PM PDT by Osage Orange (FWIW)
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To: Osage Orange

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 :)


45 posted on 03/29/2020 3:04:34 PM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists dont point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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To: BenLurkin

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


46 posted on 03/29/2020 3:06:17 PM PDT by Dilbert56
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To: dp0622
Well...no...I love women..and I'm a dude.

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

47 posted on 03/29/2020 3:07:19 PM PDT by Osage Orange (FWIW)
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To: LexBaird
"What happens if a candidate dies before the election.


48 posted on 03/29/2020 3:10:35 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: humblegunner

GFY.

Period.


49 posted on 03/29/2020 3:10:47 PM PDT by LexBaird (Tyrannosaurus Lex, unapologetic carnivore)
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To: dp0622

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

AND you still get to vote...maybe twice


50 posted on 03/29/2020 3:11:32 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (January 20, 2017, High Noon. The end of an error.)
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To: Osage Orange

True!!

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

Sounds like a joke from a woody allen movie


51 posted on 03/29/2020 3:11:56 PM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists dont point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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To: LexBaird

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.


52 posted on 03/29/2020 3:15:22 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: Political Junkie Too; nascarnation; RainMan

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


53 posted on 03/29/2020 3:16:58 PM PDT by LexBaird (Tyrannosaurus Lex, unapologetic carnivore)
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To: LexBaird

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

Think Obama 2012.


54 posted on 03/29/2020 3:17:35 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Trump is solving the world's problems only to distract us from Russia.)
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To: LexBaird

JIn that case, Hillary Clinton automatically gets the nomination


55 posted on 03/29/2020 3:18:40 PM PDT by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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To: Dilbert56

Yeah the outrage was corrupt Torricelli wasn’t dead.


56 posted on 03/29/2020 3:18:47 PM PDT by xp38
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To: LexBaird

Arkancide?


57 posted on 03/29/2020 3:18:56 PM PDT by boycott
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To: LexBaird
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.

58 posted on 03/29/2020 3:19:19 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: babble-on

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 .


59 posted on 03/29/2020 3:21:18 PM PDT by arthurus ( Co v FeFeO01)
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To: Osage Orange
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.

60 posted on 03/29/2020 3:25:45 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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