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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I figure as it is the democrats, the rules are what they want them to be, just like when biden dropped out and harris took the votes
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.
u/Young_Patriot this is a good lesson above here.