The day before…..how much crap can the campaigns cram in in the next 24 hours?
I see in many blogs where there are those people that are concerned that the election will be rigged or that it will be so close that a repeat of the 2000 election could be looming…..
If it is that close then SCOTUS will have to make the final call…..the problem is the there are only 8 justices and if they vote down party lines then it will still be a tie….and still up in the air……
What happens if America wakes up on Nov. 9 to another undecided, hotly disputed presidential election? We know what happened in 2000, when the Supreme Court in a 5-4 vote effectively settled the election in favor of George W. Bush. As controversial as that decision was, it was made by a nine-justice court. This time around, there are only eight justices and the possibility of a tie vote. That would leave a lower federal or state court ruling in place, with no definitive judgment from the nation’s highest court, the AP reports. “It would be Bush v. Gore, with a twist,” says an election law expert. “I call it the nightmare scenario,” adds a University of Kentucky law professor.
Any decision to seek a recount or otherwise contest election results would depend on the margin in any one state and its potential for affecting the national outcome. In 2000, neither Bush nor Gore could muster an Electoral College majority of 270 votes without Florida. If an initial recount doesn’t settle things, a lawsuit could follow, with appeals possible all the way to the Supreme Court. If a case should make it that far, it would reach a court made up of four justices appointed by Republican presidents and four by Democrats; a tie is a win for the person who already has prevailed in the lower court on any particular issue. A suit challenging election results almost certainly would have to be wrapped up before Dec. 19, the date electors will meet to cast their votes.
This is just what we need with this election….something else to get in the way of a clear winner…..and all the old BS from 2000 will return and all the vitriol…….
Lucky us!
So if the SCOTUS gets the case and comes up with a tied vote then I guess the sitting squatter would see fit to executive order himself the power to appoint an interim president until the mess is cleared up and it might just possibly be himself working under the FEMA act declarinig some kind of threat to the national security or something. I put nothing past politicians! Nothing!
I think it will swing back to Congress….and Obama would not be able to stay…Eos do not apply in voting.
That makes me feel a lot better. Thank you.
Sorry…none of the options are very good….
I am continually astounded by the depths of human stupidity, as you know. But, if it comes to this sort of scenario again this year, my astonishment will be required to reach to new, incredibly insane heights. But, I do enjoy the irony of having one more bullshit issue to consider, just so the MSM and the fools who pay attention to them won’t run out of stupid shit to talk about….
Watching the world blithely pursuing delusional behavior has become tiresome; I might just hibernate for a few weeks….
gigoid, the dubious
Well it at least this nightmare will be drawing to a close in 24 hours…..chuq
*grin* Are you sure that’s when it will stop? I have the nasty feeling that’s when it will begin, regardless of who wins….
gigoid
Nope that is a new nightmare….and then the 2020 election should kick off about 9 pm Tuesday…LOL chuq
Gotta love that optimism… LOL
gigoid
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