Interesting Scenario with the 1860 Election

The people of the United States have never directly elected the President. Following the November election, an Electoral College composed of electors from each state and the District of Columbia vote in December to pick the new president and vice-president. The number of electors from each state are equal to the state's total number of Senators and Representatives in Congress from the previous term giving for example, Virginia with her 2 congressmen and 13 representatives, a total of 15 electors. The Electoral College is required to have at least one member from no less than 2/3 of the states, present to form a quorum before voting for the winners.

Harold Holzer, in his book "Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-1861," has posited that following Lincoln's election one of the reasons that he did not make any public statements in regards to secession or action against those states that had already seceded was the concern that if the Border States and the states of the Upper South seceded, there would not be a quorum when the Electoral College met to cast their votes. This of course begs the question which Holzer did not address, constitutionally what would have happened had some or all of the forementioned states seceded and the remaining electors failed to form a quorum?
 
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