It’s very unlikely — but theoretically possible — that the presidential election ends with an Electoral College tie. If it did come to pass, here's how the next president would be determined.
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Ultimately, she said, the election moves to the U.S. House of Representatives, where the newly elected members of Congress would have to be sworn in and then vote on who becomes president. “I don't know if they would deliberate or not or just take a poll,” Kamarck said. “In some cases, it'd be pretty easy. And they would cast their vote for one of the people who finished in the Electoral College.”“The Constitution says you need a majority of the House delegations,” Kamarck said. “So that would be 26 House delegations.”
“What we're really saying here is if the Electoral College was really in a tie, then the outcome of House races and Senate races would be absolutely critical to the outcome of the election,” Kamarck said.
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