While it’s extremely unlikely, given the way this timeline is going…
Things to think about:
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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.
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If there’s a tie, the House elects a president and the Senate elected the VP. Sub-consideration: it is the composition of the House and Senate after the November election that makes those determinations.
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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. 🤣
Hell yeah 69 69
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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.
Generally no one we know, but the campaigns know them. Each campaign will select their own slate of electors, and whichever side wins the election in that state will have their electors cast the electoral votes. Since it is supposed to be mainly a ceremonial position, these electors tend to be party loyalists.
So, in the event of a 269/269 tie, it is very unlikely that an elector will defect to the other side after being hand-picked for their loyalty.
I’ve just been playing with interactive Electoral maps and got that outcome and I quickly changed it. Scared me too much.
Messing around with it is super interesting though. Harris can lose PA and WI out of the blue wall states if she keeps NV, AZ, and picks up either GA or NC. PA simplifies everything, though, but I see why they’re spending a good bit of time in GA.
To the laughy emoji, I think a Harris/Vance administration would be a lot funnier except that the assassination attempts to get Vance in there would probably occur daily.
- 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.
Fun fact: if the process makes it to this point, while the Senate holds a straight vote, in the House each state’s House delegation gets a single vote. So the vote of all 50-ish California members have the same weight as Wyoming’s lone representative.
Right now, Republicans hold a clear majority of state delegations (28), but if there is a Blue Wave that might change. Also, some house delegations are evenly split and who knows what will happen with those.
that’s a bit silly, might as well just have the senate choose both then.
The rules do need to be updated. They were intended to be updated, however we have this culture of preserving them instead of updating them.
