Americans do NOT vote for a candidate for president. They vote for electors. If a candidate drops out, the electors for that party can vote for a new candidate. The folks that wrote this probably don’t even know that America is a Republic, not a Democracy.
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In Michigan, the law says electors are bound to vote for the candidate on the ballot. In Florida, they vote in accordance with the party. If Joementia is replaced, but remains named on Michigan ballots, the replacement gets no boost from Joementia votes in the electoral college unless the law is broken.
And it's very murky what happens to mail-in ballots for a guy who's been replaced by the national party after the filing deadline. Assume Biden gets a plurality of the votes in PA followed by Trump with third place going to X, Biden's replacement. The PA Legislature (which is Republican-led) may be able to throw out Biden mail-in ballots and thus Trump wins and they draw the Electors from the RNC.
That's the point.
“Americans do NOT vote for a candidate for president. They vote for electors. If a candidate drops out, the electors for that party can vote for a new candidate. The folks that wrote this probably don’t even know that America is a Republic, not a Democracy.”
Let’s see. First, I don’t think political parties existed back then, so they’re not part of the Constitution. So if Biden ‘wins’ a state even after he drops out (or is removed), he still gets to choose the electors. Those electors can vote as they wish, and you’re right, they will vote for a Democrat, and almost certainly will...so I agree there. The fun part will be if all them vote for the same person...since that person’s name won’t even be on the ballot.
Then you have the ignorance factor. If a person receives a mail-in ballot and doesn’t see the name they understand to be the current candidate, say Skunk Cabbage, then I suspect many will toss out the ballot, particularly if they’re led to believe (maybe falsely, hehe) that a new ballot with Skunk Cabbabge’s name on it, will arrive. In any case, that can only hurt the Dems, and also hurt them down-ticket (which is the ONLY THING that stopped Paul Ryan’s attempted coup against Trump).
It would get interesting...and more interesting as the voting nears and ballots are printed up (I suspect that some are even being printed now).
Bottom line - expect the DEMOCRATS to want to delay the election if they need to replace Biden...and Trump now has them screaming about what a horrible idea that is.
Good point. In the Electoral College system, each state gets a certain number of electors based on its total number of representatives in Congress. Each elector casts one electoral vote following the general election; there are a total of 538 electoral votes. The candidate that gets more than half (270) wins the election.
An electoral college is a set of electors who are selected to elect a candidate to a particular office. Often these represent different organizations, political parties, or entities, with each organization, political party or entity represented by a particular number of electors or with votes weighted in a particular way.
NOTE There are "faithless electors" who vote for another candidate....but the USSC on July 6, 2020, unanimously ruled that states have the power to require presidential electors to vote for their party’s candidate for president.