CLEP US Government

Category - Elections

If no presidential candidate receives a majority of the Electoral College votes, the election is decided by:
  1. A run-off election between the top two vote recipients
  2. The US Supreme Court
  3. The House of Representatives
  4. The Senate
  5. Vote of the state legislatures
Explanation
Answer: C - In case there is not majority in the Electoral College, the election is decided by the newly elected House of Representatives, but in sort of a weird way. Each state delegation, no matter how big the state is, is given one vote. So, even though California is a much bigger state than Wyoming, both California and Wyoming get one vote. The states keep voting until there is a majority behind a single candidate (even if it is a candidate who wasn’t actually running in the election). This, by the way, has never actually happened in US history.
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