If the popular vote in a state is tied, how are the electoral votes awarded?

[WalterWhite]

Assume Biden and Trump receive the exact same number of popular votes in a particular state in 2024 and that every single recount confirms this. How would the state award its electoral votes?

Would it send a slate of electors to the Electoral College for BOTH Trump and Biden, like Hawaii did in 1960?

Would the state legislature decide?

Would a coin toss decide?

[SteveRogers]

A Kevin Costner-type gets to cast his vote over again, and hilarious antics ensue as both presidential candidates arrive in his small town to personally woo him for his election deciding vote.

[Skill and Chance]

Each state has it's own rules.  It's usually a game of chance.  Sometimes the legislature or alphabetical order of the candidates' names or something like that.

[NewYorkExpress]

A Kevin Costner-type gets to cast his vote over again, and hilarious antics ensue as both presidential candidates arrive in his small town to personally woo him for his election deciding vote.

That was a fun movie.

[NewYorkExpress]

Each state has it's own rules.  It's usually a game of chance.  Sometimes the legislature or alphabetical order of the candidates' names or something like that.

Personally, I'd be partial to whichever state settled this via a game of Texas Hold'em (if only for the image of Biden and Trump at a casino with the fate of the country on the line. They could air it on ESPN or something.)

[Skill and Chance]

Each state has it's own rules.  It's usually a game of chance.  Sometimes the legislature or alphabetical order of the candidates' names or something like that.

Personally, I'd be partial to whichever state settled this via a game of Texas Hold'em (if only for the image of Biden and Trump at a casino with the fate of the country on the line. They could air it on ESPN or something.)

Control of the Virginia HoD came down to a drawing of names after the 2017 elections.  There was also an election for a state house district in Mississippi that came down to drawing straws, but the candidate who drew the shorter straw then contested the election before the entire chamber, and he was ultimately seated because his party already held the majority (without his seat).

[Vosem]

I think in practice, if it were really so close that it was impossible to know who won, whoever controlled the court system would decide what happens. While Bush v. Gore was a thing, and something like that might well happen again, my guess is that in practice it would more likely come down to which side controlled the local state Supreme Court, or even the local state canvassing board (as happened in the 2008-MN-Sen election, extremely underrated as a turning point after which skepticism of election procedures became part of the platform of the Republican Party* basically everywhere).

*In fact, in the first Obama term, also of Conservadems in some places.