Can the nominees for President and Vice President be from the same state?
The short answer is yes, technically a Presidential and VP team can be from the same state. However there is a reason you don’t see it. The 12th Amendment says that an elector casts separate ballots for president and vice president. It further states that at least one of those two candidates can’t be from the same state as the elector. So if you had running mates both from Tennessee, for example, it would not be an issue in 49 states. But the electors in Tennessee could only vote for one of them. That could be hugely significant in a close election. Using 2000 as an example, Dick Cheney changed his registration from Texas, where he was then living, to Wyoming, where he was originally from and had represented in Congress. Let’s imagine for a second that he had not done this and both he and George W. Bush ran representing Texas. In every state but Texas the result would have been the same. But Texas electors could only vote for either Bush or Cheney — not both. Let’s say they voted for
The short answer is yes, technically a Presidential and VP team can be from the same state. However there is a reason you don’t see it. The 12th Amendment says that an elector casts separate ballots for president and vice president. It further states that at least one of those two candidates can’t be from the same state as the elector. So if you had running mates both from Tennessee, for example, it would not be an issue in 49 states. But the electors in Tennessee could only vote for one of them. That could be hugely significant in a close election. Using 2000 as an example: Dick Cheney changed his registration from Texas (where he was then living) to Wyoming (where he was originally from and had represented in Congress). Let’s imagine for a second that he had not done this and both he and George W. Bush ran representing Texas. In every state but Texas the result would have been the same. But Texas electors could only vote for either Bush or Cheney — not both. Let’s say they voted for
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