Ok....I am a little confused, I admit! Erase my last question!
Let's say, Georgia does not send electors to congress for 1/6.....for whatever reason....but one candidate still reached the 270...
That candidate still won, right?
So let's say that the 'in the lead' candidate did not meet the 270 because Georgia never certified that candidate's win via the citizen's vote in that state....and never sent their electors....
That is when the Congress critters of that state, get together and vote amongst each other on who won their state and who their vote for President will be???
OR would not meeting 270 mean each and every state would have to cast new votes for president...1 vote a state....which I think is the case?????
And if it is every state casting 1 vote via a congressional vote, are congress delegations of each state, required to cast their state's one vote, for whom their citizen's chose in their election?
Or can they go rogue?
P.S. Missourian, I usually try to stay away from any of your posts, well...because I luv you bunches and bunches, and because we are complete opposites in our support and non support for Trump and I just want to avoid any strife between us!
Love you too, Care.
There will never be strife between us.
To answer your question...
(Edit...tl;dr?...skip to post #35)
If no candidate reaches 270, the vote goes to the House and the Senate.
Every State would vote.
In the House, all the Representatives from the State vote among themselves and the outcome of that vote is the SINGLE vote issued by that state.
If we take Missouri as an example...we have 8 total representatives, 6 Republicans and 2 Democrats that together form the Missouri Delegation to the US House of Representatives.
That Delegation gets ONE vote for President in the event no candidate reaches 270 Electoral votes.
It's pretty clear that Missouri Democrats would be overruled and the
one vote for the State of Missouri would go to the Republican.
Each state would get one vote, and the winner would be the President.
Currently there are 26 states with majority Republican Delegations of Representatives, and 22 states with majority Democrat delegations. Two states have an evenly split delegation.
But it is the newly elected House that does the voting, not the current one.
So we won't know the makeup until after the election...but it is likely not to change significantly.
Can they go rogue?
The individual Representatives are not constrained to vote down party lines. A Democrat in West Virginia could vote for Trump or a Republican in California could vote for Harris.
But I think your real question is...if say Georgia went to Harris in the election, but Harris lost say Nevada and Wisconsin and we ended in a 269-269 tie, would the Georgia Delegation of Representatives, which has 9 Republicans and 5 Democrats be constrained to vote for Harris?
The answer is no.
And I suspect the Georgia delegation would definitely vote for Trump.
Hope that wasn't too convoluted.
270toWin has a really good article about the ramifications of a 269-269 tie and the steps that would be Constitutionally mandated to break that tie.
How is the president elected if the electoral vote ends in a tie or no candidate reaches 270 electoral votes?
www.270towin.com
