What happens if no candidate receives a majority of the electoral college votes?
A) The winner is then determined by the candidate who received the most popular votes.
B) The votes are recalculated after dropping out candidates with less than 1 percent of the vote; this repeats until someone has a majority.
C) The House of Representatives decides who wins, with each state getting one vote, and voting continues until someone gets a majority of the votes.
D) The Senate decides who wins, with each state getting one vote, and voting continues until someone gets a majority of the votes.
E) Both the House and the Senate decide who wins with a simple majority vote.
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