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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 ...
A tie in the Electoral College, while slim, is still possible. Here's what to expect should a tie occur. What happens if there is a tie in the Electoral College?
The 2024 presidential election will come to an end in a matter of days. Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump remain locked in a dead heat in national and battleground ...
The 2000 US presidential election produced the first "wrong winner" since 1888, with Al Gore winning the popular vote but losing the Electoral College vote to George W. Bush. [107] This "electoral misfire" sparked new studies and proposals from scholars and activists on electoral college reform, ultimately leading to the National Popular Vote ...
The election of the president and for vice president of the United States is an indirect election in which citizens of the United States who are registered to vote in one of the fifty U.S. states or in Washington, D.C., cast ballots not directly for those offices, but instead for members of the Electoral College.
U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett becomes the first Democratic member of Congress to publicly call for President Biden to withdraw from the race. [361] Marianne Williamson re-enters the presidential race and calls for an open convention. [362] July 3: Representative Raúl Grijalva calls on Biden to withdraw from the race. [363]
If a tie were to happen in November, real humans holding the office of presidential elector will gather in their state capitols on Dec. 17 to translate the popular vote into electoral votes.
For one, due to the 20th Amendment, the newly-elected House would elect the president rather than the outgoing Congress that did the job in 1825, back at a time when the new Congress began in ...