[doug from upland]

You are confusing the Electoral College which meets in the state capitols in December with the delegates of the RAT Party. They nominate their candidate.

[ThePythonicCow]

You are confusing the Electoral College

I don't think so. Perhaps I was confusing the point to which I was responding, but my response focused on what happens after the convention, after each state has determined, for each party, who would be the Electoral College delegates, if that party won, and after it has started to print ballots.

From that point, until the actual election, a switheroo would require either getting a sufficient number of states to print a new ballots, or getting voters to vote for, say, Kerry, when they really meant Hitlary.

Then after the election, a switheroo would require getting the winning Electoral College delegates to decide on someone other than whom they were sworn to support (say due to an unexpected death).

Though of course, you are right, prior to the Convention results being taken up by the states to print ballots, it's up to the political party.