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RockRaven

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8. Legal? Yes. Practical? No.

Reply to Beachnutt (Original post)

Mon Mar 31, 2025, 08:46 PM

Mar 31

As for practical, being from the same state make winning more difficult (assuming they would be counting on winning their home state). In the Electoral College, each elector casts a vote for POTUS and a vote for VP, but they can only vote for one person maximum from their own state. (12th Am)

So they would need to win the EC by a margin which makes those home state's votes not necessary.

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No, they have to be from different states... Wounded Bear Mar 31 #1

If they could still win without that state's electoral votes, it wouldn't matter tritsofme Mar 31 #6

Is there a rule about that? nilram Mar 31 #7

I'd like Michelle as POTUS BOSSHOG Mar 31 #2

SEND THAT ARTWORK TO THE WH. johnnyfins Mar 31 #3

Jasmine Crockett for Atty General. johnnyfins Mar 31 #4

Or Tish James johnnyfins Mar 31 #5

Legal? Yes. Practical? No. RockRaven Mar 31 #8

How many times does it have to be repeated that Michelle wants nothing to do with politics Ocelot II Mar 31 #9

No prohibition I am aware of.. elleng Mar 31 #10