Suppose Harris then replaces him with Clinton or whoever. What would happen to the votes already cast for Harris / walt? Would they automatically go to Harris / Clinton? Or would those ballots be considered essentially wasted? Maybe it's different state by state. Does anyone know?
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Yes, very close. See all the comments about THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE, which are correct but seem to have gotten the fewest votes here.
Nobody votes for Harris-Walz on Nov 5, they vote for their state electors. If Democrat electors are judged as winning the state, those electors go to the state capital in mid-December and choose the electoral votes for president and veep separately. Whatever instruction prevails in December will be what they do; if it's useful and credible in December to vote Cthulhu-Gozer, the electors will. Electors are free to reject the party line whether or not they pledged to on the honor system or with penalties. If the Republican electors get 270 on Nov 5, it won't matter because their bloc will hold. If they don't, then the Democrat electors would theoretically make it to 270 without mutiny. But many other scenarios could arise.
See "faithless elector" on Wikipedia for fun stories.
I have this fantasy that Team Trump infiltrated the DNC long ago and found out who the electors for 2024 were going to be was legally holding onto their cointelpro blackmail control file all this time (holding all the possibilities). Then just goes and finds the ones for the electors and then shows the file to them and says, "Do the right thing"
And then when they forge a sufficient number of ballots at 4am to steal the election from Trump again, these electors all become bad faith electors and turn in Trump instead of Kamala, and Trump wins
And because of Biden/Kamala administration changing the rules so that future would be Pences (recall pence didn't do it)....COULD not reverse the elector's decisions
Then Trump becomes president, pardons anyone necessary and then reveals blackmail of everyone that would try to impeach him before they can even think about it, and they are arrested and all their comms embargoed because theyr'e elevated to terrorist under national security directives THEY FORGED....the EO says if you fuck with the election, you're a terrorist
Then he has them 'kill themselves' in gitmo
Ok by now you think I'm psycho and evil. Good. Because everything I said above is what they have said they wanted to do and would do. They said "Trump will die in jail" Then they shot at him and tried to again
u/Young_Patriot this is a good lesson above here.