jimpack123 wrote:
American Vet what happens in your opinion if the President elect dies before the E*******l college v**es?
I looked at several articles, etc: This one seems to sum it up quite well. Bottom line: It's a grey area....
Before The E*******l College Has Met
If the president-elect dies between E******n Day in November and the official E*******l College v**e, things get a bit complicated.
Quite a few states — including Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and West Virginia — do not have laws binding their e*****rs, which means that in the event that the president-elect dies, those e*****rs could cast their v**e for someone else.
As far as the 29 remaining states (plus Washington, D.C.) are concerned, federal law does not dictate that they must continue to cast their v**e for the deceased president-elect. Nor does it say that these 29 states must v**e for the vice president-elect in the president-elect’s stead. Technically, these e*****rs could v**e for whomever they wanted — and that’s where some serious questions arise.
As legal scholar Richard Pildes told The Washington Post, in this circumstance “the issue is how an e*****r should or can cast their v**e. Should the e*****r v**e for the dead winner of the e******n, if the e*****r otherwise would be obligated to do so? Should he or she v**e for the vice-p**********l candidate of that party instead? How would these v**es be tallied in Congress?”
If that sounds muddy, that’s because it is — and thankfully, this has only happened once in history before. In 1872, Republican candidate Horace Greeley died after the general e******n but before the meeting of the e*****rs. The e*****rs slated to v**e for Greeley ended up splitting their v**es up between four Republican p**********l hopefuls and eight vice president candidates. Some even v**ed for Greeley, despite his condition.
Unfortunately for “Zombie” Greeley, the House passed a resolution that discounted Greeley’s posthumous support. His opponent, Ulysses S. Grant, who had already won the popular v**e in a landslide as well, ventured on to the White House.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/president-elect-die