To: 9YearLurker
I like the Cain/Gingrich ticket suggestion.
Someone mentioned that if they are both registered to vote in Georgia, then there is a bit of a problem. From Wiki -
United States presidential election, 2000
While the U.S. Constitution does not specifically disallow a president and a vice president from the same state, it does prohibit electors from casting both of his or her votes for persons from his or her own state. Accordingly, Cheneywho had been a resident of Texas for nearly 10 yearschanged his voting registration back to Wyoming. Had Cheney not done this, either he or Bush would have forfeited their electoral votes from the Texas electors.
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10/11/2011 9:52:12 AM PDT by
Eagle of Liberty
(Shaking My Head on a daily basis)
To: Eagle of Liberty
Oh, yeah—I’d forgotten about that.
I’d think one of them could change registration easily enough—e.g., Newt to Virginia?—with such advance planning, however.
To: Eagle of Liberty
Would it matter, though, since electors wouldn’t be casting ballots for both of them, just for the Presidential nominee? If I recall correctly, the VP used to end up being the person with the second-most number of electoral votes. I wonder if that rule is a leftover from that situation.
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