Such is the gist of the 12th amendment.
Amendment 23 says that U.S. citizens in the District of Columbia can vote for the Electors who formally vote for President and Vice President. Before Amendment 23 was passed, those who lived in Washington, D.C. could not cast votes for these Electors. Today, the District of Columbia gets three electoral votes.
The 23rd amendment permitted Washington DC to choose electors for President and Vice PresidentTHIS IS NOT THE ANSWER...I GOT IT WRONG ON MY PAPER AFTER USING THIS !!
congress
Passed the 12th amendment, providing that electors use separate ballots to vote for a president and vice president
Yes, but mabye not resign. That is the point of being vice president.
12th amendment
This is false. The amendment actually requires separate ballots for president and vice-president.
Amendment 12
It requires electors to vote for president and vice president.
Yes. Since the 12th amendment was ratified, the president and vice-president run as a team and are elected in separate ballots by the electors. The electors chosen are sworn to vote for this team.
The main change of the amendment was to make the Electors specify which of the two persons they named was for President and which was for Vice-president. Christeen :)
Before the 12th amendment was ratified, the presidential electors each cast two votes for President and the second place finisher was made the vice-president. Nowadays, separate votes are take for President and vice-president.
Amendment 23 says that U.S. citizens in the District of Columbia can vote for the Electors who formally vote for President and Vice President. Before Amendment 23 was passed, those who lived in Washington, D.C. could not cast votes for these Electors. Today, the District of Columbia gets three electoral votes.
_____ Members of the Electoral College, called electors, will vote for one person as president and for another as vice-president.
It required electors to vote for president and vice president separately. Before its ratification, the candidate with the most votes was elected president and the candidate that came in second was elected vice president.
Amendment 23 says that U.S. citizens in the District of Columbia can vote for the Electors who formally vote for President and Vice President. Before Amendment 23 was passed, those who lived in Washington, D.C. could not cast votes for these Electors. Today, the District of Columbia gets three electoral votes.
The rules governing the electors of the President and Vice President are in Section 1 of Article II and in the 12th Amendment.