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MichMary

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5. There is no Constitutional provision
Fri Dec 30, 2016, 02:26 PM
Dec 2016

But, if there were, who would declare the election null and void? The 4-4 Supreme Court? The R Senate? The R House? The current POTUS?

If a new election were to be held, how long would it take to hold new primaries, new conventions, new elections? Who would run the show in the meantime? Would Clinton be declared POTUS by default?

And--please define "hacked our system." There is no evidence that the voting machines were hacked. No one has denied the contents of the leaked e-mails. There is no proof that the leak of the e-mails swayed even a single vote.

What may seem very clear to the denizens of a left-leaning message board would probably be not so clear to the people who would have to make the decisions.

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Constitutional Question [View all] itcfish Dec 2016 OP
No provisions. elleng Dec 2016 #1
We'd need another Congress and POTUS but treestar Dec 2016 #2
No such thing. Even a convicted criminal can become president bowens43 Dec 2016 #3
Yeah, but Pence, itcfish Dec 2016 #4
Not McConnel. Orin Hatch is president pro tem dumbcat Dec 2016 #16
The question is not "who" can become president, but "how" they become president. SecularMotion Dec 2016 #19
There is no Constitutional provision MichMary Dec 2016 #5
It would have to itcfish Dec 2016 #8
Okay, MichMary Dec 2016 #13
Loophole? world wide wally Dec 2016 #6
Another failure of the founders treestar Dec 2016 #15
The remedy for such a situation is the same dumbcat Dec 2016 #17
The house, when counting the electoral votes, unblock Dec 2016 #7
Which brings up a couple interesting questions dumbcat Dec 2016 #18
The state's House delegation would decide SickOfTheOnePct Dec 2016 #20
Interesting question. H2O Man Dec 2016 #9
If Sam Ervin were still alive, Hello Twitty wouldn't be so smug. mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2016 #10
I don't think anything has changed HeartachesNhangovers Dec 2016 #11
It would be up to Congress. kentuck Dec 2016 #12
A Congress controlled by MichMary Dec 2016 #14
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