[21twelve]

“The House could decide the election if no candidate achieves a majority in the Electoral College.”

Maybe I’m not understanding it all, but wouldn’t that mean that some write-in candidate or whoever is running for the Libertarians, Communists, Socialist or whatever party takes a state?

And Pat Paulsen has been dead for awhile, so that counts him out this year.

[norcal joe]

She’s hoping that because of ‘irregularities” in voting, or in counting the vote, or because of legal actions, some states can’t certify their final tallies by the the electoral deadline, which is sometime in December I believe. Therefore no candidate gets the required electoral college votes, and it goes to the House for some kind of vote.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Nope. Then the 12the Amendment kicks in to involve the House. They must choose among the top 3 vote-receiving candidates. Not subs, not surprises, not compromises. Then each state delegation gets ONE vote to cast. So even though the extremists have more seats, leftists run up their numbers in population centers in big states, so no benefit to them.

[ReelectTrump2020]

I could be misremembering but I believe the article is wrong. It is not that none gets a majority of EV, it is that none breaks the threshold, in this case, 270 EV. The distinction mostly matters if you have strong 3rd parties as you note. However, there are also a number of scenarios where you end up with Trump and Biden each getting 269 EV in which case it gets thrown to the house, even without a strong 3rd party.