hammer 2 day 8

So we still don't know who won this election.  I heard a rumor that it may play out in Congress if it's not decided by the end of Dec. 

So I did some research. Key dates:

Dec. 14 (states’ electoral votes are cast) - if there is no clear winner in the Electoral College, the 12th Amendment dictates that the House of Representatives would elect the president and the Senate would pick the vice president.

The congress that votes is the one that enters in January. 

So current numbers have the house is dems 209, rep 193 (So Biden?)

Current numbers have senate as dems 48 and republicains 48. The vp is tiebreaker in the Senate (so current Pence to vote for himself? Or since it's the "new" congress the vp is unknown so can not undo the tiebreaker).  Tricky. 

Jan. 20 (Inauguration Day) - House has not chosen a president, then the vice president-elect chosen by the Senate serves as acting president until the deadlock is resolved in the House

Since Biden would have been elected by the House we probably wouldn't get this far. 

20th Amendment takes over — making the vice president-elect acting president until a president has qualified (So Pence?).

If this still doesn't play out the Presidential Succession Act applies (So Pelosi).

I'm ok with that.