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>>But you left out the final part. If the Electors don't choose someone, it goes to the House of Representatives, where each state gets a single vote. Given the current make-up of the House, I see no way that's anything other than a Trump victory. (And, of course, that likelihood is why Bloomberg chose not to mount an independent campaign.)
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>On the situation if neither candidate reaches 270, yes, it goes to the House.
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>In that case, each state delegation gets one vote. Now, whether that equates to only one vote per state I'm actually not certain. I would have thought a state could have multiple delegations, with each delegation getting a vote, but I'm not certain on that.

From the 12th Amendment: "the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote;"
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>But regardless, I don't think it's a given that the House would go with Trump, if a Libertarian candidate had picked up something in the original electoral college. Remember, to many of the rank and file GOP members in Congress, their goal is more to defeat Hillary than to elect Trump. This is why I'd really like to see a push for Gary Johnson. Yes, it is a long shot, but I shudder to think of four years under either HRC or Trump.

I think that's a really far-fetched scenario.

Tamar