[BlackElk]

Cheney had to register in Wyoming because if the POTUS and VPOTUS candidates were BOTH residents of Texas, Texas embers of the Electoral College could only vote for one of them. That would likely have resulted in Joe Lieberman being elected VPOTUS by the Electoral College. Whether Texas Electoral College members abstained, or voted for someone else from another state, Lieberman would have had at least a plurality.

See the Twelfth Amendment to the constitution providing that each state's electors each vote distinctly for one person to be POTUS and another person to be VPOTUS, and that one of the two must not reside in the same state as the elector. Thus, Texas electors and Texas electors alone were constitutionally prohibited from voting for George W. Bush and Richard Cheney unless one moved to another state and it was Cheney who had previously represented Wyoming in Congress who moved since George W. Bush was the incumbent governor of Texas.

That's WHY.

[sargon]

OK well then I was right the first time, they can't be from the same state, practically speaking, because it would cost the ticket that state's electoral votes.

I guess it's easy enough restriction to get around when they really want or need to, like the way Cheney and Bush-43 did...

Vote Trump!

[nopardons]

Many thanks; much appreciated!

I knew that there is a reason, but both my body and brain are on vacation and I think that I got too much sun today, to boot.