[entropy12]

Do not try to mix TOTALLY DIFFERENT functions assigned to the Vice President (VP) by the US Constitution. (USC).

One role as president of only the Senate has nothing crossing over to the much more important role of approving and tabulating electoral votes to select next president.

As I postulated before, there is a reason why the USC specifically assigns the role of tabulating electoral votes to the VP. If it was merely a role to the arithmetic to add votes, that could have been done by any of the Senate or House clerks.

[Alberta's Child]

I didn't mix the different functions. I simply pointed out that the VP is treated differently than any other member of the executive branch under the U.S. Constitution.

As I postulated before, there is a reason why the USC specifically assigns the role of tabulating electoral votes to the VP. If it was merely a role to the arithmetic to add votes, that could have been done by any of the Senate or House clerks.

Or maybe there is no such thing as a "Senate or House clerk" identified in the U.S. Constitution, and if there is a need to establish a single person to serve in an oversight role then the VP makes more sense than anyone else.

As I see it, the Constitution and the 12th Amendment are written explicitly to minimize the roles of any elected official subject to legislative branch oversight in presidential elections.