Timeline for Who would become the US President if a fictional character like Cthulhu is elected?
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| Feb 7, 2019 at 3:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackPolitics/status/1093343750150082560 | ||
| Feb 6, 2019 at 3:05 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jan 31, 2019 at 17:29 | comment | added | gmauch | I must add a comment about Tião the Monkey in Rio de Janeiro. He was a bad-mood monkey in the city Zoo and jokingly announced as a candidate for mayor in the 1988 elections. He got more than 400.000 votes, reaching 3rd place then, but since he was not a valid candidate, all the votes were considered null. | |
| S Jan 31, 2019 at 2:32 | history | suggested | sondra.kinsey | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Link Cthulhu to Wikipedia page for those not familiar with this character
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| Jan 30, 2019 at 21:50 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Jan 30, 2019 at 20:58 | comment | added | Joshua | Possible duplicate of Hypothetical challenge to the 22nd Amendment | |
| Jan 30, 2019 at 20:17 | comment | added | Machavity | I initially didn't take this seriously, but upon re-reading it I see where you're going with it. It's on-topic in the sense that I've often wondered what would happen if enough people wrote in, say, Mickey Mouse. I reworded the title to try and make this more obvious | |
| Jan 30, 2019 at 20:15 | history | edited | Machavity | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Tweaked the title to make it clearer that this is about the process and not the absurdity of electing Cthulhu
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| Jan 30, 2019 at 18:48 | comment | added | RWW | After much consideration I decided to upvote the question. Although the premise of Cthulhu receiving enough write-in votes is preposterous, the idea of prominent people writing in alternate candidates (like several GOP Senators suggested they'd do instead of voting for Trump during the 2016 election) is relevant and worth discussion. | |
| Jan 30, 2019 at 18:38 | answer | added | RWW | timeline score: 47 | |
| Jan 30, 2019 at 18:06 | answer | added | BobE | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 30, 2019 at 17:45 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jan 30, 2019 at 17:20 | answer | added | hszmv | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 30, 2019 at 17:04 | answer | added | David Thornley | timeline score: 16 | |
| Jan 30, 2019 at 16:39 | comment | added | John Dvorak | @user4012 it might be an interesting follow-up question - what happens if the vice-president is ineligible too | |
| Jan 30, 2019 at 16:39 | comment | added | user4012 | @DavidRice - let's assume for the sake of simplicity that VP elect is someone fully eligible. And the whole point is, electors in many states are bound to follow the vote counts by law, presumably, regardless of how silly the vote results are | |
| Jan 30, 2019 at 16:35 | comment | added | David Rice | Are we assuming that there are electors who are ready and able, in each state, to cast their votes for C'thulu? And who would be elected vice President? | |
| Jan 30, 2019 at 16:34 | comment | added | UnhandledExcepSean | @user4012 Perhaps you should replace Cthulhu with someone proven to not be a U.S. citizen or of age after the election, but prior to the swearing in. My bet would be the vice president elect assumes the position. | |
| Jan 30, 2019 at 16:32 | history | edited | user4012 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 30, 2019 at 16:30 | history | edited | user4012 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 30, 2019 at 16:27 | history | asked | user4012 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |