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Bait and Switch possible?

Posted on 09/01/2004 3:26:02 PM PDT by PlushieWithTeeth

Question: What are the rules for switching out a candidate for the office of the United States President? As in, is it possible to switch out another candidate when it's apparent the current one is losing badly? What are the deadlines for doing something like this? Any help on this would be very much appreciated :)


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: candidate; change; election; tinfoil
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1 posted on 09/01/2004 3:26:03 PM PDT by PlushieWithTeeth
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To: PlushieWithTeeth

New Jersey and the Torch for example?


2 posted on 09/01/2004 3:27:27 PM PDT by Andyman
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To: PlushieWithTeeth

There are no restrictions at all.

You vote to choose your state's electors. Then they are free to choose whoever they want.


3 posted on 09/01/2004 3:27:32 PM PDT by swilhelm73 (There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men. --Burke)
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To: Andyman

Each state has their own rules.


4 posted on 09/01/2004 3:28:04 PM PDT by So Cal Rocket (Fabrizio Quattrocchi: "Adesso vi faccio vedere come muore un italiano")
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To: Andyman

What I mean is, what does the law matter to Dumbascraps?


5 posted on 09/01/2004 3:28:27 PM PDT by Andyman
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To: So Cal Rocket
Each state has their own rules.

To choose how to get on the ballot - you don't have to be on the ballot to be elected.
6 posted on 09/01/2004 3:28:54 PM PDT by swilhelm73 (There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men. --Burke)
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To: PlushieWithTeeth
If you are talking about demonRATS than there are no laws rules or common decency. Whatever it takes to win. The rightness of their cause overrides everything else. Welcome to FR!
7 posted on 09/01/2004 3:29:07 PM PDT by OSHA (Cheap Shots, Low Blows and Late Hits. Free Delivery. Fast Friendly Service with a Smile!)
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To: PlushieWithTeeth
I'm not an expert in Election Law - there are only a few and they're all in Washington. But, whatever the party rules are - I think the real complications may come from the states and their deadlines for getting on the ballot. But, you form an excellent question - one that the DNC "elders" have to be asking themselves right now.
8 posted on 09/01/2004 3:30:21 PM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: PlushieWithTeeth

The democRATS have already PROVEN there are NO RULES...
...if the candidate is a (D)

However the rules are VERY STRICT if the candidate is an (R)

It does not matter to the (D)'s if absentee ballots have
already been mailed out to our military, and overseas voters.
They don't care... Courts back them up.

what's even worse, they try to claim a vote for (D1) who is
no longer on the ballot, is actually a vote vor (D2), the
substitutee (in other words, Shrillary)


9 posted on 09/01/2004 3:30:36 PM PDT by Future Useless Eater (FreedomLoving_Engineer)
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To: PlushieWithTeeth

We'll know soon enough if Lautenberg suddenly shows up kissing small children and windsurfing up the Potomac.


10 posted on 09/01/2004 3:30:51 PM PDT by small voice in the wilderness (Quick, act casual. If they sense scorn and ridicule, they'll flee..)
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To: swilhelm73

Yes... you are correct. Names on the ballot and who the Electors select can be two different things.


11 posted on 09/01/2004 3:30:52 PM PDT by So Cal Rocket (Fabrizio Quattrocchi: "Adesso vi faccio vedere come muore un italiano")
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To: PlushieWithTeeth

Hillary ain't gonna swoop in. Fuggheddabadit.


12 posted on 09/01/2004 3:30:59 PM PDT by stands2reason (Limousine Liberal--a man who has his cake, eats his cake, and complains that other people have cake.)
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To: swilhelm73
There are no restrictions at all.

Well shoot. The Dems should have forgone the entire campain and ran "Unnamed Democrat", who was beating Bush by a wide margin before the primaries.

13 posted on 09/01/2004 3:31:48 PM PDT by VisualizeSmallerGovernment (Question Liberal Authority)
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To: PlushieWithTeeth

Is this a US 9th Circuit Court question or US Supreme Court question?


14 posted on 09/01/2004 3:32:27 PM PDT by Prost1 (Why isn't Berger in jail?)
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To: PlushieWithTeeth

Loosen that tin foil a bit. It's cutting off the circulation.


15 posted on 09/01/2004 3:33:17 PM PDT by Glenn (The two keys to character: 1) Learn how to keep a secret. 2) ...)
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To: swilhelm73

So, the Dems could switch out Hillary for Kerry at any time? His campaign seems to be in a avalanche-type mudslide lately. How would this affect overseas voters?


16 posted on 09/01/2004 3:33:30 PM PDT by PlushieWithTeeth
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To: PlushieWithTeeth

Bush is in this to win, whatever the ups and downs of the polls. Or were you referring to the 'Rat party?


17 posted on 09/01/2004 3:33:53 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Prost1

Neither...it's a State question.


18 posted on 09/01/2004 3:34:41 PM PDT by So Cal Rocket (Fabrizio Quattrocchi: "Adesso vi faccio vedere come muore un italiano")
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To: Andyman
What I mean is, what does the law matter to Dumbascraps?

Of course not, but in a national election the Democrats would have to get the US Supreme Court's "okay" to break election laws. Although there is always the possibility the US Supreme Court might let them break the law (remember - - the doddering O'Connor has been all over the map lately and it is unknown whether she is still fully aware) the rats would certainly not get the free ride they got from the thoroughly corrupt New Jersey Supreme Court.

19 posted on 09/01/2004 3:35:43 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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Not kind. I think it's a legitimate question seeing how fast Kerry is falling and it's quite apparent that there is no rule a Dem won't bend or break.


20 posted on 09/01/2004 3:37:03 PM PDT by PlushieWithTeeth
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