Thursday, August 6th, 2020

election murk

Thursday, August 6th, 2020 12:55 pm
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What happens if a U.S. presidential candidate withdraws (or dies) before the election is over?
part 1
part 2

It sounds like it would be a mess. Those pages don't even discuss all possible scenarios, like if both the presidental and vice-presidental candidates die or become incapacitated, or if one or both disappear without a trace.

The section about the 20th amendment in Part 1 doesn't make sense to me, because we no longer have separate votes for the president and the VP. So "if the President shall not have been chosen" then we won't have a "Vice President Elect" yet either. Right?

I'm sure there are some better articles on the topic out there. But the few others I've glanced at also make it seem murky and uncertain.

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