[EL] New York Times, Time Magazine, on Bloomberg preparations for independent run

[Thomas J. Cares]

If there is no electoral college majority, Republicans in the House choose
the President. This begs the question: Could one or more candidates who
fracture a majority attempt to direct their pledged electors to vote for
another candidate?

I'm guessing this would be hard, since the electors pledge to vote for that
candidate, not a candidate they are directed to support by that candidate.

Some hypotheticals with Bloomberg fracturing an EC majority:

1. Sanders is the dem nominee and Bloomberg threatens to have his electors
vote Sanders unless the Republican has his electors vote for Bloomberg

2. Bloomberg simply has his electors vote for the democrat

3. Sanders is the dem nominee; Bloomberg prefers Clinton; he offers to have
his electors vote Clinton if Bernie's will too (else house GOP chooses).

4. Trump is the nominee. Bloomberg threatens to have his electors vote Dem,
unless Trump makes a deal with him to have all their electors vote for John
Kasich.

On Sunday, January 24, 2016, Richard Winger <richardwinger at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> http://ballot-access.org/2016/01/23/new-york-times-says-michael-bloomberg-is-seriously-thinking-about-running-for-president-as-an-independent/
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> Richard Winger 415-922-9779 PO Box 470296, San Francisco Ca 94147
>


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