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Title: If there is an Electoral College tie between Trump and Biden, this is what happens
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URL Source: https://thepoliticalconservative.co ... and-biden-this-is-what-happens
Published: Oct 30, 2020
Author: staffFYI
Post Date: 2020-10-30 18:25:51 by BTP Holdings
Keywords: None
Views: 548
Comments: 5

If there is an Electoral College tie between Trump and Biden, this is what happens

With the 2020 presidential election less than a week away, many are speculating about what would happen if there is a tie in the Electoral College vote. Although unlikely, a potential tie is not entirely impossible and does have historical precedent.

The Electoral College consists of 538 votes distributed among all 50 states and Washington, D.C. To become president, a candidate must win a majority of these votes, with 270 being the absolute minimum.

But 538 is an even number, meaning that there could be a scenario in which both candidates receive 269 electoral votes. In that outcome, the vote would go to the U.S. House of Representatives to break the tie.

Unlike the number of electoral votes, there are 435 members in the U.S. House of Representatives, meaning that a majority vote is guaranteed. However, each state – and not each representative – gets one vote, based on the party majority.

So, for example, a vote among U.S. representatives from Maryland – which has seven Democrats and one Republican – would go to the Democratic candidate. A vote among U.S. representatives from Florida – which has 13 Democrats and 14 Republicans – would go to the Republican candidate.

Critics say this system is vastly disproportionate given that the Top 10 largest states, which have half the population, would 20% of the vote while the remaining 40 states, with less than half the population, would get 80% of the vote.

The vice president, meanwhile, would be chosen by the Senate in the case of a tie. This means that the U.S. could have a Republican president and Democratic vice president. If the House of Representatives couldn’t decide on the president, and the Senate has chosen a vice president, then the vice president would become the acting president until the matter was resolved. If both the Senate and the House could not pick someone, then the speaker of the House would become acting president until both houses of Congress decided on someone.

A tie in the electoral college – let alone the speaker of the House becoming acting president – is highly unlikely to happen. But an electoral tie did occur in 1800, during the presidential election between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. The candidates each received 73 electoral votes. (There were fewer states at the time.)

The House of Representatives voted among themselves to eventually settle on Jefferson as the third president and Burr as his vice president. This unusual situation led to the passage of the 12th Amendment to prevent a situation in which multiple candidates win a majority of electors.


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FYI Let's hope it is not a roll of the dice.

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#1. To: BTP Holdings, 4um (#0)

The light that burns twice as bright, burns half as long. - Dr. Eldon Tyrell

Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
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Esso  posted on  2020-10-30   18:39:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Esso (#1)

In case of a tie, hang Biden.

Cynicom  posted on  2020-10-30   18:51:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: BTP Holdings (#0)

I just can't WAIT to see by exactly how much Bidet loses. Gliberal scum tho't they could sink him with stolen ballots etc >;-D

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USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um

NeoconsNailed  posted on  2020-10-30   19:09:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: NeoconsNailed (#3)

Gliberal scum tho't they could sink him with stolen ballots etc

The Dims knew that by raising the impeachment issue that it would put all other house business on hold until the impeachment was settled. This threw a monkey wrench in the works and delayed all other important issues. ;)

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2020-10-31   11:04:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: BTP Holdings (#4)

That's all it is with gliberals -- one roadblock to progress and normalcy after another. In an individual this would be considered spoiled, selfish, wanton, aggressive and narcissistic behavior. Just a few years ago gliberalism was scientifically found to be a mental illness, but I see the research goes way back farther:

www.researchgate.net/publ...ntal_Illness_and_the_L eft

Gliberalism in politics is one of the most massive curses on human history and is much, much older than this application of the L-word in ameriKan English.

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USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um

NeoconsNailed  posted on  2020-10-31   14:55:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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