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deport wrote: “You need 270 to win. Trump at 306 minus the 48 = 258. Thus Trump doesn’t have the number to win. Now what
will happen I don’t know but that is what they are trying
to do is to get Trump below the number needed to win.”

The 12th Amendment: “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.”

First point: “A majority of the whole number of Electors appointed..” That could be interpreted that 270 would no longer be the magic number since only 492 Electors had been appointed. (584-46=492) Since Clinton would still only have 232, Trump still wins with 260.

Second point: “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.” (the vote is taken by States with each state having one vote) Trump still wins.