What Happens If No Candidate Receives a Majority of the Electoral

question 89

Multiple Choice

What happens if no candidate receives a majority of the electoral college votes?

• A) The winner is then determined by the candidate who received the most popular votes.
• B) The votes are recalculated after dropping out candidates with less than 1 percent of the vote; this repeats until someone has a majority.
• C) The House of Representatives decides who wins, with each state getting one vote, and voting continues until someone gets a majority of the votes.
• D) The Senate decides who wins, with each state getting one vote, and voting continues until someone gets a majority of the votes.
• E) Both the House and the Senate decide who wins with a simple majority vote.

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