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To: Hostage
Not quite. If Electors from a state cast two ***sets of votes that are conflicting*** (as has happened in history and is why there exists a constitutional amendment provision), then if that state’s electoral votes matter to the outcome of the election, then the House votes but only 1 vote per delegation.

Incorrect. See 12th Amendment:

The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice-President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate;—The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted;—The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President.
Each elector gets to vote for President and VP, but there is no requirement that all the electors of a state vote for the same person.
17 posted on 12/06/2016 4:58:51 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: PapaBear3625

Read it again.

That provision refers to a tie; it is not applicable to my statement.

“and if no person have such majority” <— a tie

My statement refers to a different provision for when there are ‘conflicting sets’ of electoral votes cast.


27 posted on 12/06/2016 7:22:14 AM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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