To avoid a 269-269 deadlock, add one member to the US House

Here’s a thought exercise. What would have happened if Donald Trump had won 42,921 additional votes — 10,458 in Arizona, 11,780 in Georgia, 20,683 in Wisconsin? That would have given him 269 electoral votes and would have left Joe Biden with 269 electoral votes. Neither would have had the 270 electoral votes needed to be elected president.

The Constitution tells us that the election would then go to the House of Representatives, with each state’s delegation having one vote. The first candidate to win 26 states (in 1825, the only time this has happened, it took multiple ballots before John Quincy Adams won the required majority of the states) is elected president.