One thing I worry about is a contingent presidential election. That situation arises when no candidate gets a majority of electoral votes (270 of 538). Should this situation arise, Congress gets to pick the next president and vice president.

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    You’re missing a key part of that process which makes it even more of a shit show. If there is a contingent election, then it is not resolved by a straight vote of 435 House members. Each state’s House delegation gets a vote. So all 52 members from California get the same voting power as Wyoming’s lone rep.

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      I thought, surely you must be wrong.

      Nope… You’re right.

      And they can even hold the vote in a closed session.

      wtf

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        One time whose votes count more? Wyoming? They already count more in presidential and Senate elections that californians’