Analysis: What happens if there’s a tie in 2024? Be ready for a ‘contingent election’ | CNN Politics
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With two candidates fighting over a mere 538 Electoral College votes, a tie scenario is more than possible. It’s actually kind of surprising there has only been one tie election so far, in 1800, between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr.

If Kamala and trump both tie the electoral college, which it is looking like a possibility, a new president would be chosen by the new Congress on Jan 6th. Scary to think about

  • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
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    8 days ago

    If Harris wins Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona and Nevada and a single electoral vote in Nebraska, all of which Joe Biden won in 2020, but she loses Pennsylvania and Georgia, there’s a tie, 269-269.

    Unlike every other state, Maine and Nebraska award two electors to the statewide winner and one to the winner of each congressional district. Those individual, competitive electoral votes in Maine and Nebraska become hugely consequential in potential tie scenarios.

    What are we doing right now.

    It’s like if Rube Goldberg and Frank Costanza created an electoral system.

    And after 32 rounds of voting for the speaker of the house, every member has to spin around in a circle with their fingers on their head, do a little dance, and then they can all gather around the aluminum pole and air their grievances for the year