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The Electoral College, created in 1787, is the system used to determine how the president of the United States is elected. In order to secure the presidency, a candidate needs 270 electoral votes.

Forty-eight states have a winner-take-all system where the winner of the state's popular vote gets all of its electoral votes. Maine and Nebraska are the only states with a split ...

In the rare event that there's a tie in the Electoral College — which in the modern era would mean each candidate wins 269 electoral votes — members of the newly elected House of ...

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A tie in the Electoral College count when all the votes are tabulated is highly unlikely, but not impossible. Here’s a look at what would happen then. The odds of a 269-269 tie ...

If a state’s delegation is deadlocked, it wouldn’t get a vote. However, it would be the new Congress elected on Nov. 5 that would break a tie in the Electoral College.

Each state delegation gets one vote and it takes 26 votes to win, the National Archives explains. Though a tie in the Electoral College can happen, it probably won’t, according to experts.

A tie in the Electoral College is mathematically possible but rare. We VERIFY who decides the winner of the presidential election if that happens.