“DNC sticks with Biden virtual roll call, despite doubts that it’s necessary”

The Washington Post has the latest on this story:

The Democratic National Committee pressed forward Wednesday with a plan to hold a virtual roll call to nominate President Biden for reelection during the first week of August, a process that could short-circuit a burgeoning effort from within the party to replace him amid questions about his acuity.

Party leadership cited the risk of a legal quagmire if Biden is not formally nominated before the party’s convention in Chicago, which begins Aug. 19. DNC officials said looming ballot deadlines in a handful of states could give GOP-aligned groups the opportunity to challenge in the courts any nominee whose status is not formalized by those dates.

But officials in several of those states said in emailed statements that there are processes in place to ensure that Biden — or another Democrat — would appear on the ballot even if the deadline passed before the nomination was official. And some experts say the notion that a Democratic nominee would be kept off the ballot is far-fetched.

“If there were a challenge, courts side with giving ballot access for major candidates.,” said Rick Hasen, an election law professor at UCLA. “It’s not realistic that this would happen.”

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