• axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    11 months ago

    no electoral winner means congress decides who the president is. It's happened before. It's how Andrew Jackson got elected.

    • edge [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      John Quincy Adams won that election, despite Jackson getting more EC votes and a higher popular vote. Jackson then won the next election normally.

      But that election didn’t even have a second party candidate. All four candidates were from the same party. So a third party candidate causing a contingent election would still be a big deal. And it would just be funny.

      I also imagine a possible scenario where the third party candidate tells their EC voters to vote for Biden or Trump as faithless electors, with some sort of concessions, potentially even the Vice Presidency.