• InevitableSwing [none/use name]
        hexagon
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        1 year ago

        It's rare but it happens that after a candidate gets the nomination and dies - he stays on the ballot.

        But I wonder there's ever been a case where a candidate dies before the nomination is decided, gets the nomination despite being dead, and stays on the ballot. Was/is that even possible?

        • EnsignRedshirt [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          The party would eventually have to produce a living person to hold the office, but I bet they could get away with nominating a corpse. Who’s going to stop them? The Democrats would happily let them do it, thinking “surely we can beat a dead guy, right?”

    • ElGosso [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I honestly believe that a rumor would start that he was still alive and people would write him in.