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It's Possible Harris and Trump Tie 269-269 in the Electoral College.
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Pay particular attention to the EC votes assigned by Congressional District in Nebraska and Maine.
In the event of a 269-269 tie, it would only take one faithless elector to flip the whole thing.
Faithless electors is a whole deal... Good novel on the subject here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_People%27s_Choice_(novel)
I didn't even think about those two apportioned states. Yikes.
Novel sounds interesting, I've never heard of it.
Basic premise is there's an election and the winner dies before the Electoral College votes can be counted. So who wins?
Is it the VP candidate, who got 0 electoral college votes, or the other candidate who got some but less than 270?
Is there an answer to that? Or would that be another Bush v Gore?
Oh, man, it gets INCREDIBLY complicated.
From a purely Electoral College perspective, you have to have 270 to win. So it boiled down to the electors in each state.
But there aren't really any laws REQUIRING electors to vote for who their state wanted and, in the case of death, that's kind of out the window anyway.
If nobody gets to 270, it goes to the House where it's one vote per state.
Is there an answer to that? Or would that be another Bush v Gore?