2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThe presidential election won't be over until December 19th.
After all, electors won't be voting in the electoral college until then. Electors can switch their vote, so we better not make any assumptions about who is going to win that vote until the actual vote takes place.
Arneoker
(375 posts)You own this forum!
barrow-wight
(744 posts)All the more ad revenue for this site, our democracy be damned.
thesquanderer
(11,990 posts)...whereas super delegates are instead supposed and expected to vote according to their own personal choice on that day.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)The electors sign and SEAL Their votes and they are sent to the President of the Senate.
Those electoral votes are not unsealed and read until January 6, so the election isn't over until then.
If a single Senator and a single Representative jointly write, sign, and deliver an objection to the Electoral College vote by January 6, the Congress can overturn the Electoral College vote and throw the entire thing to the House of Representatives for the presidency and to the Senate for Vice Presidency.
THIS THING AIN'T OVER UNTIL JANUARY 6, 2017, AND EVEN THEN IT COULD BE DAYS, WEEKS, MONTHS, OR EVEN YEARS BEFORE A SINGLE CANDIDATE ACHIEVES THE 26 OR MORE VOTES IN THE HOUSE AND ANOTHER CANDIDATE ACHIEVES THE REQUIRED 51 VOTES IN THE SENATE!!!!
BERNIE WILL STILL HAVE A CHANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
katmondoo
(6,457 posts)MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)If the House does not reach a 26 vote solution, it can go on until they do so.
Remember, when thrown to the House each state delegation gets a single vote. For split delegations, that means an abstention.
BzaDem
(11,142 posts)BootinUp
(47,179 posts)BootinUp
(47,179 posts)Tarc
(10,476 posts)I really hope this was satire.