How is the president elected if the electoral vote ends in a tie or no candidate reaches 270 electoral votes?
As this recently updated article discusses, while extremely unlikely, given the way this timeline is going it's possible the electoral college ends in a tie. Nate Silver projects this as a .3% possibility.
Things to think about:
Only about half of the states require their electors to vote for the person that won their state. Who are the electors? Generally no one you know.
If there's a tie, the House elects a president and the Senate elects a VP. Sub-consideration: it is the composition of the House and Senate after the November election that makes those determinations.
This would all technically be decided on January 6th. And you remember how that went last time.
Regardless, it's highly unlikely this will happen. Still, this would be utter and complete madness. There is literally a non-zero chance we have a Trump/Harris administration. 🤣
It can't really be removed because it's part of the Constitution. That would take an amendment and the bar for doing that is just too high right now.
There is an alternate plan for states to just agree to cast their EC votes for whoever the national popular vote winner is, but that plan doesn't kick in until enough states agree that total to 270.
You never know until you try. I mean look at Republicans — they’ve been beating the anti-abortion drum since Phyllis Schlafly. And now abortion has been made illegal. Maybe the dems should at least start talking about it rather than just accepting defeat.
The objective of NPVC is great, but it won't work. If it ever comes online (which is incredibly unlikely), it will be immediately repealed the very first time it would actually have any effect, by every state that finds itself with electors voting against their own electorate. It probably wouldn't even pass judicial review since it explicitly requires electors to ignore their own constituents in favor of the nation as a whole.
The Republicans haven’t won the popular vote for the Presidency since George W. Bush’s second term, and he was riding a high from his post-9/11 actions; he lost the popular election to Gore the first go round. The last time a Republican won the popular vote for their first term was George Bush Sr. in 1988.
No no no.....you have them compete on the mid-90s gv show American Gladiators.
......look man, I just really like that show. I want to bring it back. And if I get to see trump fall 20 feet after being knocked off the ledge in Joust by a big jacked steroid monster named Ice, even better!