Sharing residency with presidency not a vice

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June 24, 2008

Sharing residency with presidency not a vice

Richard Winger delivers some good clarifying information about whether or not both candidates on a presidential ticket are allowed to reside in the same state (emphasis added):

The 12th Amendment says that a presidential elector can't vote for someone for president and someone else for vice-president, if both candidates are from that elector's home state. So, the only barrier is that the electors from one particular state can't vote for such a team. Electors in the other 49 states are free to vote for a team in which both members are from the same state.
Also, the ban only applies to residence in December of the presidential election, the month when the electors vote.

Winger goes on to note that current Vice President Dick Cheney moved from Texas to Wyoming in 2000 so that Texas electors could vote for the slate. I remember him making the residence change, but I admit that I was under the mistaken impression that there was an overall ban on both candidates being from the same state.

It's not a scenario likely to show up in this year's major party tickets, as neither Arizona nor Illinois harbors any politicos that have been mentioned as possible VP picks.

| By joe lance | 1:08 PM

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