[EL] what if a nominee dies during the campaign?

[Richard Winger]

I assume you mean a presidential or vice-presidential nominee. In July 1972 the Democratic National Convention chose Thomas Eagleton for vice-president, but in August 1972 he resigned from the ticket, and the Democratic national committee replaced him with Sargent Shriver.
In 1912 the Republican vice-presidential nominee, Vice-President James S. Sherman, died on October 30, 1912.  The Republican national committee replaced him with Nicholas Murray Butler. It was too late to remove Sherman's name from the November ballots, but that didn't matter because we have the Electoral College.  All the Republican electors voted for Butler in the electoral college.
 Richard Winger 415-922-9779 PO Box 470296, San Francisco Ca 94147

   

   From: Mark Rush <markrush7983 at gmail.com>
 To: "law-election at uci.edu" <law-election at UCI.EDU> 
 Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2016 3:51 PM
 Subject: [EL] what if a nominee dies during the campaign?
  
i assume there is no legislation on this--only party rules?  what does the list know?

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