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

  • Sabre363@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    12·
    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
      3·
      5 days ago

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