Even though Congress has now updated the Electoral Count Act of 1887, the possibility of a January 6 rerun is still out there.14 It’s right in the third paragraph of Article II, Section I of the US Constitution, which makes clear that in the event of a tie or other failure of one candidate to reach a majority in the electoral college—such as one state having a disputed set of electors—the choice of president will be thrown to the US House of Representatives, where there are no rules about whom they might choose, other than that the vote will be taken state by state, with each one having one
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