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

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    • Sabre363@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      5 days ago

      So in other words, not only does our presidential vote not matter, it REALLY doesn’t matter

      • _bcron_@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 days ago

        No, it matters. I like to think of it like the world’s dumbest video game. We try to power up electors with red or blue energy crystals, and then they get powered up as either red or blue and duke it out! With the exception of a couple places like Nebraska which can become purple. It’s bullshit and confusing but whatever. But sometimes if you power up a red or a blue one they randomly decide to switch sides, which is bullshit, but it’s all part of the game. And then we have scorekeepers to let us know which red and blue ones have been knocked out, but the scorekeepers sometimes don’t do that, which is a bunch of bullshit and is against the rules, but the scorekeepers sometimes bet on the match and try to throw it… But if there’s a mutual KO it falls onto refs, which we also powered up.

        Oh, and then there’s the lawsuits. This game confusing af

        Who needs a popular vote when we have this?

        • Sabre363@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          5 days ago

          If literally everything is bullshit and the ones that make the rules just don’t follow them whenever they feel like it, then doesn’t that, by definition, make the vote have no meaning? If the people can vote one way and then a few rich cunts can simply bend their own rules and switch the color, then how does voting actually influence the outcome?

          Maybe I’m missing something in my ignorance (probably), but I fail to see how using the rules of a game to control the simultaneous rulers and rule makers of said game can ever be anything other than a massive waste of time.

          • _bcron_@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            5 days ago

            I was using humor as a literary tool to emphasize how dumb the electoral college is