text: A tie in the nationwide electoral vote is possible because the total number of votes, 538, is an even number. It is highly unlikely but one day if we dont change this, it will happen. in 1960, Hawaii sent two electors to congress, it could of ended in a disaster, luckily vice president Richard Nixon validated only his opponents electors. If their ever happened to be a tie, each state would only cast one vote, so it is not fair that say Wyoming would get as much as California which has seven times the amount of voters Wyoming has.