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To: Steely Tom

Leave it to Hillary to die prior to the election just to get the sympathy vote!!!


8 posted on 08/08/2016 2:28:23 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: tired&retired

Dead by Election Day

What happens if a presidential candidate passes away at the last second?

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2008/09/dead_by_election_day.html

what would happen if one of the presidential candidates were to die or become otherwise incapacitated before Election Day: Would Palin or Biden assume the nomination?

Not necessarily. Each party has its own protocol for this scenario, but in neither case does the running mate automatically take over the ticket.

If John McCain were to die before the election, the rules of the Republican Party authorize the Republican National Committee to fill the vacancy, either by reconvening a national convention or by having RNC state representatives vote.

The new nominee must receive a majority vote to officially become the party candidate.

If Barack Obama were to die before the election, the Democratic Party’s charter and bylaws state that responsibility for filling that vacancy would fall to the Democratic National Committee, but the rules do not specify how exactly the DNC would go about doing that.

(Congress could also pass a special statute and push back Election Day, giving the dead candidate’s party time to regroup.)


17 posted on 08/08/2016 2:33:09 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: tired&retired

Dead people voting for the dead candidate. Awesome.


32 posted on 08/08/2016 2:42:26 PM PDT by showme_the_Glory ((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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To: tired&retired

Then all the dead people would be voting for their own kind.


70 posted on 08/08/2016 3:40:35 PM PDT by georgiegirl
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To: tired&retired
Leave it to Hillary to die prior to the election just to get the sympathy vote!!!

I always thought she'd engineer Bill's death just prior to the election to ensure the sympathy vote.
73 posted on 08/08/2016 3:48:42 PM PDT by slumber1 (Islam delenda est)
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