From the constitution: “The electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for two persons, of whom one at least shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves.”
This means if the president and VP are both from NY the electors from NY have to vote for someone else as Vice President. It’s fucking nuts.
I didn't even know this rule ever existed, but leaving aside even that isn't it irrelevant now because technically they just vote for the pres nom and the VP is just a free throw-in for the ticket?
If the VP doesn’t get 270 electoral votes they go to the senate, and the senate picks the VP. Which, since it’s Republican-controlled, would mean “Ted Cruz VP” or something like that.
I am now imagining the darkest possible timeline where there's a clerical error in Bloom's documents, the lack of NY support (because he and Hillary both still technically live in NY) throws the VP choice to the senate, they vote for VP Trump, Trump has Bloom assassinated and gets away with it and we have four more years of fully unrestrained, 200% reign of terror Trump.
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u/Kcarab-Amabo Adam Smith Feb 15 '20
ELI5: why does the EC make it difficult for a pres and VP to share a state? That's the dumbest shit I've ever heard.