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To: Nero Germanicus
You avoid the “Shall have qualified” portion of the Twentieth Amendment in your argument. What is it, and when did he qualify? Your blah, blah, blah about all this other crap is irrelevant.
80 posted on 06/27/2015 11:35:38 AM PDT by Uncle Sham
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To: Uncle Sham

There are several levels of qualifying. The first level is a major party’s nomination or achieving Independent candidate status on a state by state basis. That usually involves collecting registered voter signatures.
The second level of qualifying is being cleared for the ballot in each state and in the District of Columbia. Usually a state’s Secretary of State or other Chief Election Officer performs that function. In most states citizens can challenge the eligibility of a candidate’s name to appear on the ballot. These are “eligibility or ballot challenge lawsuits.”

The 20th Amendment and federal law speak ONLY to failing to qualify as president-elect, after the general election. Once the president-elect’s electoral votes are certified there is no longer a President-elect. So there is a period from Election Day until early January when the Joint Session of Congress is convened to determine if the president-elect has “failed to qualify” under the 20th Amendment.

Presidents-elect (the apparent winner of a majority of the votes of the electors) qualify when their electoral votes are counted and certified at the Joint Seesion of Congress which meets for that purpose.

A President-elect can fail to qualify by death, infirmity or if there are written objections to the certification of electoral votes and those written objections take the president-elect below the 270 electoral vote threshold. In that instance, a qualified Vice-President-elect would become Acting President until and if the objections are resolved. If they are not resolved, the House of Representatives would then elect the president from among the top three candidates in electoral votes but in 2008 and 2012 only two candidates received electoral votes.


86 posted on 06/27/2015 12:39:20 PM PDT by Nero Germanicus
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To: Uncle Sham
Your blah, blah, blah about all this other crap is irrelevant.

He will drown you in irrelevant crap proclaimed by idiot judges who need to be disbarred, if not placed in jail.

He somehow thinks that the opinions of the various incompetent courts are persuasive. He pushes the fallacy of false authority to an art form. It's his primary weapon in these sorts of discussions.

125 posted on 06/28/2015 6:42:41 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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