Tell me you didn't read the article without telling me you didn't read the article.
Per Amendment XII, "we" -- well, the Electors actually -- most surely do elect the Vice President.
Gotta love all the FReepers who toss around their views of how the Constitution works without having any understanding of how the Constitution works. Some things never change. :-)
It was a simplification.. we meaning the voters not electors. You vote for the President of your choice and you assume his VP choice by doing so. The electoral college i.e. elect the President and VP.
Neither the Constitution nor the Electoral College prevents president from picking a VP from the same state. Electors can’t vote for both a President and VP from their same state.
Using the Bush / Cheney as an example, Cheney changed residence so the electors in Texas could also vote for him otherwise he’d have been in Texas and would have lost 32 electoral votes and we’d have had Gore and Lieberman.
The Twelfth Amendment was designed to avoid a repetition of the events of 1800 by having the electors vote separately for President and Vice President, with each elector casting one vote for each office. The Constitution’s original system at times could result, as it did in the election of 1796, in the selection of a President and Vice President with different political alignments, while the Twelfth Amendment simplified the process for selecting a President and Vice President from the same political party. The Supreme Court has thus stated that the Amendment “both acknowledged and facilitated the Electoral College’s emergence as a mechanism not for deliberation but for party-line voting.”
Since the Twelfth Amendment was ratified, Congress and the states have made other changes to presidential elections. Following the disputed election of 1876, Congress enacted a statute providing that if a state’s vote is not certified by the governor under seal, it shall not be counted unless both Houses of Congress concur. In addition, in 1933, the Twentieth Amendment superseded some provisions of the Twelfth Amendment.
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