The 2024 Presidential election presents a possibility that third party candidates may play a significant role in determining the next President of the United States. According to the Twelfth Amendment of the Constitution, if no presidential candidate receives 50%+1 of the Electoral College Electors vote, each state in the House of Representatives has one vote which can be voted for one of the candidates. When a candidate receives 50%+1 of the House’s state votes, the House of Representatives will have determined the next President of the United States. This was the case in the election of 1824.
2024 may recreate that situation which occurred in the 1824 election where multiple presidential candidates divided the electoral votes so that no candidate met the requirement of a 50%+1 vote majority to become President. The selection of the President then became the responsibility of the House of Representatives in accordance with the Constitution’s Twelfth Amendment. Each state of the House of Representatives then voted their single vote choice until a 50%+1 majority vote was obtained for one of the eligible candidates. In the 1824 election the House selected as President a candidate who was neither the choice of the popular vote or had received the highest electoral votes.
The effect of well funded and popular third party candidates can play havoc with the Electoral College vote system, especially in thin margin key states. It is possible that no candidate will receive the 50%+1 of the electoral votes and the president will be determined by 26 state votes of the House of Representatives. This historic election will determine whether the future of the United States will still be a democracy or become an autocracy and who makes that determination. Only time and you the voters will tell.
THE FUTURE BEGINS TODAY!
Gil Eisner 8/6/2023 DOLLARBILLBRIGADE.COM
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