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Nov 4, 2020 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
As Donald Trump and Joe Biden race to secure 270 electoral college votes, the possibility of a tie isn’t completely out of the question. So what happens if they do tie?
If Trump and Biden both secure 269 of 538 electoral votes, it would be a tie. Otherwise, if a third presidential candidate secured electoral votes that prevented either of the major candidates reaching the 270 vote target.
The Electoral College (EC) is the group of people that elect the United States President and Vice President. When Americans go to the polls, they’re not directly voting for the candidates, but for ‘electors’.
Nov 2, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
#BREAKING: Police have swarmed the city centre of Vienna, Austria, after a shooting incident near a synagogue. | @thomascflanaganau.news.yahoo.com/vienna-shootin…@thomascflanagan UPDATE: At least one person is dead and several others injured after multiple gunmen opened fire near a synagogue in the Austrian capital of Vienna.