If nobody reaches 270 electoral votes, rather than having a second round, the congress decides who wins. FPTP in general. And that most states would give all electoral votes to a candidate with 51% of the vote.
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51%? 50% + 1 vote!
Afaik just a plurality can be enough
Yeah, technically the person with the most votes wins but I was just saying that 50% + 1 voice guarantees a win.
That campaigning starts over a year in advance... then you don't even have a switchover for two months.
No voter ID is super weird to me as a Canadian.
We can vote without ID in Canada, we need to swear that we are who we are.