The founding fathers expected the competitors to be drawn

The United States is preparing for the worst electoral scenario

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Presidential candidates won the popular vote, but lost the Electoral College five times in US history, and Democrats and Republicans are preparing for a potential crisis that could plunge the country into constitutional turmoil and power struggle in the weeks following Election Day.

Nevertheless, the framers of the US Constitution expected a scenario in which no presidential candidate would guarantee the majority of the Electoral College, or there would be a dead end, as so-called "potential elections" would take place in Congress.

And the House of Representatives is charged with reflecting the will of the people and choosing the president, while the Senate chooses the vice president, and the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, urged Democrats to prepare for this scenario, in which none of the candidates gets 270 electoral votes, and it is an electoral scenario that happened twice before. In the years 1800 and 1824.

Five districts plan to allow sealed ballot papers to arrive on November 3, after several days.

While the deadline in Michigan is 14 days after the election, and in states counting on election night, very close margins are likely to lead to litigation, and this scenario led the Supreme Court to decide the outcome of the 2000 elections between George Bush Jr. and Al Gore, And if the popular vote remains contested, or uncounted, in one or more states by December 14 - the date when all electors in the Electoral College are required to vote - Congress could intervene.

"There is an election day, and there is a date in December when the members of the Electoral College meet, then vote for the presidency, and then there is a date in January that Congress will approve those elections," said Amy Dacey, executive director of the American University’s Sean Institute of Politics. The American people "should choose the president and vice president directly, but they did not want to give Congress the sole power to choose either," explains Dacey.

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