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The electoral college system means most elections are pretty close if you consider how many votes could theoretically flip the result. About 70,000 votes would flip Florida this time, for example, and about 35,000 votes would flip Pennsylvania.

Of course, nothing is likely to come close to 2000, where changing a mere 269 votes would have changed the outcome.



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