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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] Yay, research! "Technically, could Bush have walked out 5 minutes after being elected and another Republican run as President for the 4 years before the next election?" I'm not sure I understand this question, though. You mean, let's say in 2004, the election returns are officially certified and Bush has won, but he decides he doesn't want the office after all? I think this falls under the 20th Amendment to the Constitution, which reads, in part: [QUOTE]Section 3. If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.[/QUOTE]In other words, in the earlier example, Cheney would then become the President (or in this case President-elect). "can any of the major US elections be brought forward? Or do they all have to happen at their regularly-scheduled times?" There isn't, as far as I am aware, any legislation in place dealing with delaying or postponing elections at the federal level. This was the source of fun <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/11/election.day.delay/">conspiracy-minded speculation</a> two years ago. Various regions have their own laws about local elections. (9/11 delayed the NYC mayoral election by several weeks, I think, and last year's hurricane season disrupted one in Miami.) I suspect there are local laws in place in many places about delaying (locally) the presidential election in case of major disaster. I'm not sure how that would play into the election at large, but I don't think the votes are officially delivered until January, providing some leeway, and also states have some jurisdiction over their Electoral College representatives, so I presume they could issue the necessary instructions. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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