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To: ItsForTheChildren
My understanding is that if a candidate is disqualified, congress chooses. That may not be correct but the Constitution says that they can be disqualified after they become "President-Elect", that means after the Electoral College vote..

U.S. Electoral College

January 8, 2009 * Counting Electoral Votes in Congress Public Law 110-430 changed the date of the electoral vote in Congress in 2009 from January 6 to January 8. This date change is effective only for the 2008 presidential election. The Congress meets in joint session to count the electoral votes (Congress may pass a law to change the date). The President of the Senate is the presiding officer. If a Senator and a House member jointly submit an objection, each House would retire to its chamber to consider it. The President and Vice President must achieve a majority of electoral votes (270) to be elected. In the absence of a majority, the House selects the President, and the Senate selects the Vice President. If a State submits conflicting sets of electoral votes to Congress, the two Houses acting concurrently may accept or reject the votes. If they do not concur, the votes of the electors certified by the Governor of the State would be counted in Congress.

114 posted on 11/20/2008 11:07:11 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: DJ MacWoW
My understanding... Our votes on November 4th only selected the Electors, so the real votes for President and Vice-President have yet to be cast. If Obama were to be declared ineligible before January 8th (the day of the real vote) then really nothing changes, except the Electors cannot cast a vote for Obama. They can choose anyone they want, really. I'm suggesting that since the vast majority of them are there to vote for Obama they would never vote for McCain, but would most likely vote for Biden. I have a hard time seeing them vote for Hillary.

That's my opinion. I could be wrong.

123 posted on 11/20/2008 12:34:11 PM PST by ItsForTheChildren
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