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elleng

(130,156 posts)
Sat Jun 4, 2016, 12:20 AM Jun 2016

Indictment and a Late Replacement Nominee

Most states, if not all, allow political parties to substitute nominees after certification.

by Don E. Siegelman

Oakdale, La.

Mr. Siegelman was governor of Alabama 1999-2003.

'Regarding Karl Rove’s “What If Clinton Gets Indicted?” (op-ed, May 19): However right his prognostications, Mr. Rove is off the mark in his proposition that if Hillary Clinton is indicted after she is nominated and certified “t could then be virtually impossible for [Democrats] to win the presidency outright, especially since six early-deadline states [including] Alabama . . . compel electors to support the popular-vote winner.”

Mr. Rove’s proposition is off base. Most states, if not all, allow political parties to substitute nominees after certification. Even with statutory deadlines for certification, if ballots haven’t been printed, the “right to cast an informed and an effective ballot” requires that the certified-substitute nominee’s name appear on the ballot. Even after the ballots are printed, political parties may substitute a nominee, and states have an obligation to instruct voters on how to cast a ballot for that nominee.

As a practical matter, even if Mrs. Clinton is indicted after she is certified, Democrats may still certify a substitute nominee whose name may appear on the ballot, and if it’s too late for the candidate’s name to appear on the ballot, secretaries of state have an obligation to inform voters how to cast a vote for such a nominee.

The Democratic Party rules creating “superdelegates” are likely to be tested to the breaking point as the Sanders, Clinton and “superdelegates” collide in Philadelphia this July.

On the other hand, if the “presumptive” Republican Party nominee takes Republican members of the House and Senate down with him, perhaps Mr. Rove will wish to add some “superdelegates” to the RNC for 2020.'

http://www.wsj.com/articles/indictment-and-a-late-replacement-nominee-1464987362

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Indictment and a Late Replacement Nominee (Original Post) elleng Jun 2016 OP
I'm hoping for a Bernie O'Malley ticket, Ellen. nt grasswire Jun 2016 #1
Would be great, grasswire, elleng Jun 2016 #2
Karl Rove has been hammering on Hillary before they announced, Thinkingabout Jun 2016 #3
Note that Governor Siegelman says elleng Jun 2016 #4
I have seen some Rove followers here hoping for an indictment which is not going Thinkingabout Jun 2016 #5

elleng

(130,156 posts)
2. Would be great, grasswire,
Sat Jun 4, 2016, 12:31 AM
Jun 2016

but if there's another who could gain Senator Sanders more, I'm for that.

I do hope Governor O'Malley obtains a position he wants. He likes environmental matters, and I personally would like to see him leading the totally messed up Department of Veterans Affairs.

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
3. Karl Rove has been hammering on Hillary before they announced,
Sat Jun 4, 2016, 12:38 AM
Jun 2016

He has some followers and I do not fall for his story.

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
5. I have seen some Rove followers here hoping for an indictment which is not going
Sat Jun 4, 2016, 12:55 AM
Jun 2016

To happen and Hillary will still have her delegates which she has not released. Rove is encouraging descent.

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