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The nominee must be chosen by August 7th to be on the ballot in Ohio. The convention is too late.
Whatever statute you're referencing could be amended.
No. The DNC is planning to officially nominate Biden well ahead of the convention, only to meet this deadline to get on Ohio's ballot.
https://apnews.com/article/ohio-ballot-biden-access-3bf359cce8e73714be45cb99a6e31546
How can that be legal? How can Ohio demand a candidate be official before they've been nominated? I don't want Biden to die, but what if he's nominated on August 7th and dies on August 8th? Does Harris automatically go on the ballot? Does a dead man stay on the ballot?
How? Fascist bullshit, that's how. It's basically heads I win tails you lose, except heads is the legalistic authoritarian frameworks abide and we get our choice of shit sandwich in the general and tails is complete collapse of the old republic into the new American unitary executive empire.
That's always an issue no matter what the deadlines are.
Is it? This is the first time I've ever heard of a state requiring a ballot be finalized before the convention.
I meant that the candidate could die or otherwise have to drop out after the ballots are finalized. That is always an issue, in every election.
You're talking about the official plan, which is all well and good, but it has nothing to do with the topic at hand, which is a blitz primary.
If an alternate candidate is not officially chosen before August 7, they will not appear on the Ohio ballot.
Well then, either A. We'll have to win without Ohio, or B. Ohio can get their heads out of their asses and approve the primaried candidate post-deadline, or C. This won't matter because the primary blitz is a hypothetical scenario.
Whether this hypothetical scenario happens or it goes some other way, it would be incredibly foolish and incompetent for the DNC to miss this deadline and just write off Ohio.
Sure, 18 delegates are a significant number.