What If the Electoral College is Tied?

[Priesstt_]

Imagine spending your entire life in the American eye. Deciding to run for president, spending years worth of stress on promoting yourself over a couple months. Winning all of it and being nominated for your area. Going one on one for the most powerful role on the planet. Getting 269/270 electoral votes, just one away from the presidency. Then you pick heads and the coin lands on tails.

[Naxvarus]

Everything you said in this video gave me a headache. Not because I didn't understand it, but because I did.

[Zorbak]

I knew Alaska's representative was a bear with a tie.

[FloridaMan]

It's worth mentioning that if there's a 50-50 tie in the Senate, the VP does break the tie, so if a President is running for re-election and there's an Electoral College tie, the VP can vote for themselves.

[MidnightAssassn]

Remember when George Washington said don’t split into parties?

[strider]

Hey cgp, you forgot one minor detail about the senate part. The senate has a tiebreaker: the Vice President. In the scenario you described, the outgoing Vice President would get to cast the tie breaking vote.

[促至]

2020: “Write that down, write that down....”

[Ildskalli]

Don't even mention the coin toss!! Here in Chile, when two candidates for Mayor are tied, the tie is broken with... a coin toss. And most of us never knew because it was so unlikely, that it barely merited mention. Until it happened this past Sunday. And I think I speak for a lot of my fellow countrymen/women when I say that is ridiculous, shameful even.

So no, please, no coin tosses in a democracy. There's much better ways to break ties.

[jcrosenkreuz]

There's about a one-in-fifty chance this video's going to get REALLY relevant in a few months.

[stephh]

"Flip a coin" kinda like they did in Iowa?

[Stormson]

so kanye could be president after all...

[someperson]

"Don't worry, there is an 18th century solution to the problem!"
lol fml this is too true

[astrick]

Solution. Make Peuto Rico the 51st state. No more representative ties.

[KittenisKitten]

Who is watching this at 2020 on the 4th of November, waiting for the results wondering if this could happen

[thomase]

Don't mind me, just placing my premature bet that this video is going to blow up in a few days...

[knightofkyranic]

“Vice President and president can be from two different parties”
So Like how they used to do it...

[LunaProtege]

Someone needs to write a fan fic where there's ties for president all the way down... And the speaker becomes acting president. Bonus points if it takes them a full term to solve the tie, and the whole time the speaker acting as president does a better job than whichever guy they elect at the end. Extra point if they decide to scrap presidency altogether because of that.

[blueberryboi]

Is it too much work to allow the people to vote directly for the president?

[Czarmzy]

Then: Cool trivia but I doubt it will be ever useful
2020:

[holdemdang]

Both entertaining and terrifying information.