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If no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes, the Twelfth Amendment of the United States Constitution provides that the U.S. House of Representatives will select the president, with each of the fifty state delegations casting one vote, and the U.S. Senate will select the vice-president.

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The leader in popular votes gets all 20 of Illinois' electoral votes even if he does not receive more than half of the votes. Illinois is a "winner take all" state.

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