“How could the DNC put forth another candidate when it is too late to get on most state ballots?”
State committees will scramble to get the correct name on the ballot, law or no law, filing deadline or not. Don’t worry, everyone knows there must be a (D) on the ballot, it’s in the Constitution right after the part about primaries and conventions.
Actually, by federal law, nobody but the EC need vote. The rest is made up by the states.
That’s true,but the time it would take for this story to shake out to the point where a candidate switch would be necessary would eat up most of the seven weeks left before day zero. Besides, we still vote for electors. Whose electors? A ballot would still be needed.