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Originally posted by cosmoknight
Using this map its possible we may have a tie in the next election. All it would take for this to happen would be West Virginia going to Bush throwing us into a 269/269 tie. Stayed tuned for another potential election mess.
http://www.centerforpolitics.org/cr...ectoratemap.php
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A tie is the same, constitutionally, as someone getting a plurality but not a majority - the vote is thrown into the new House of Representatives, and each state gets one vote. I already mentioned above what happens in that event....
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