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Re:US billionaire helped to back Brexit by grzm on Sunday February 26, 2017 @12:04PM (#13738243)
From the point of view of how electoral votes are decided (excluding faithless electors), it is determined by plurality, not majority. A state's electoral votes go to the candidate who receives the most votes (a plurality), not the one who receives more than half (a majority).
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Re:US billionaire helped to back Brexit by paulddraper on Sunday February 26, 2017 @12:18PM (#13738328)
It's a majority of electoral college.

It's up to each state to choose their electors (plutority of popular vote, as you said being the most common, though not the only method).

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