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HillGoose
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« on: January 22, 2018, 02:55:35 AM »

then every1 could just vote themselves 4 president and there be a tie
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« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2018, 11:15:07 AM »

then every1 could just vote themselves 4 president and there be a tie

No, you'd have to be at least 35 years old to vote for yourself.
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« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2018, 02:33:05 PM »

then every1 could just vote themselves 4 president and there be a tie

No, you'd have to be at least 35 years old to vote for yourself.

This, plus presumably there are at least a couple Americans out there who do not wish to be president. So the House would get to choose between whatever 3 random citizens got the most electoral votes, I guess.
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« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2018, 05:25:54 PM »

then every1 could just vote themselves 4 president and there be a tie

No, you'd have to be at least 35 years old to vote for yourself.

I didn't know that, wow.
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« Reply #4 on: January 22, 2018, 11:21:41 PM »

50,000 older voters for Micky Mouse, 25,000 for Spongebob Squarepants
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« Reply #5 on: January 23, 2018, 02:42:37 PM »

Basically, someone with an extremely large family would win each state.
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« Reply #6 on: January 23, 2018, 02:53:25 PM »

Congratulations, President Mike Smith!
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« Reply #7 on: January 23, 2018, 11:37:32 PM »

We'd have some sort of celebrity president, from how ever many thousand decide to vote for them.

I'd say that every state would vote for someone different. That way the winner would be out of whoever won California, Texas, and Florida/New York (not sure how that would work in an EV tie) and would be decided on by the house.

If all Mike Smiths vote for themselves, that would be one vote for each Mike Smith, so it wouldn't work that way.
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« Reply #8 on: January 30, 2018, 03:15:12 PM »
« Edited: January 30, 2018, 03:21:04 PM by super6646 »


The Calgary Flames goalie is going to be president? XD
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« Reply #9 on: January 30, 2018, 06:39:29 PM »

I wonder how much turnout would drop if people had to actually write out the names of all the candidates they were voting for rather than just pull a lever or fill in a bubble.
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« Reply #10 on: January 30, 2018, 07:59:43 PM »

I have no idea why this would be the result.  Write-ins are legal in plenty of places, and we haven't seen everyone voting for themselves in those jurisdictions.
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« Reply #11 on: February 13, 2018, 11:19:59 PM »

I freakin' swear, why hasn't hillgoose got banned?
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« Reply #12 on: February 14, 2018, 07:19:45 PM »

I freakin' swear, why hasn't hillgoose got banned?
The ignore button's there for a reason dude.
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« Reply #13 on: April 04, 2018, 10:17:25 PM »

We'd have some sort of celebrity president, from how ever many thousand decide to vote for them.

I'd say that every state would vote for someone different. That way the winner would be out of whoever won California, Texas, and Florida/New York (not sure how that would work in an EV tie) and would be decided on by the house.

If all Mike Smiths vote for themselves, that would be one vote for each Mike Smith, so it wouldn't work that way.

Well thankfully we don't have to worry about that happening in real life
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« Reply #14 on: May 15, 2018, 07:23:21 PM »

I wonder how much turnout would drop if people had to actually write out the names of all the candidates they were voting for rather than just pull a lever or fill in a bubble.


He wasn't saying to get rid of levers and bubbles, he was saying that there should be no requirements to be accepted as a legitimate write in candidate.
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