President John "L." Kerry?

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What if Kerry wins the election and enough printers eff up so that more than 270 electors vote that way?

[Joe Republic]

I think this issue was finally resolved because the people concerned admitted it was a printing error, so the officially recorded votes were for John F. Kerry.

But I guess if they ALL did it, we'd have a fairly hilarious situation.  On one side you'd have the Democrats saying pretty much exactly what I said in the first paragraph.  Then on another side you'd have the Republicans trying to have the votes invalidated for whatever legal or constitutional reasons.  Then on ANOTHER side you'd have any number of "John L. Kerry"s across the nation trying to claim the votes for themselves and thus, the presidency.  Obviously such a scheme would never work, but I'm surprised nobody tried it in New York.

Last, it'd be amusing that the Democrats would have lost a second election in a row despite actually winning both.

[ATFFL]

What if Kerry wins the election and enough printers eff up so that more than 270 electors vote that way?

Well, there would have to be  John L. Kerry from MA who could be President.  He might have a claim to the ballots then.

More likely is the votes are invalidated and no candidate has enough votes to be declared President so it goes to the House.  WIth only one candidate Bush woudl become President.

Since Edwards would have enough proper votes to be VP we would haev a split executive branch.

[Josh]

What if Kerry wins the election and enough printers eff up so that more than 270 electors vote that way?

Well, there would have to be  John L. Kerry from MA who could be President.  He might have a claim to the ballots then.

More likely is the votes are invalidated and no candidate has enough votes to be declared President so it goes to the House.  WIth only one candidate Bush woudl become President.

Since Edwards would have enough proper votes to be VP we would haev a split executive branch.

Interesting.

[DanielX]

What if Kerry wins the election and enough printers eff up so that more than 270 electors vote that way?

Well, there would have to be  John L. Kerry from MA who could be President.  He might have a claim to the ballots then.

More likely is the votes are invalidated and no candidate has enough votes to be declared President so it goes to the House.  WIth only one candidate Bush woudl become President.

Since Edwards would have enough proper votes to be VP we would haev a split executive branch.

Unless it's John 'Ewards' which gets the votes...