A separate election for the VP?

[mystery-ak]

A separate election for the VP?

Jazz ShawPosted at 10:31 am on May 6, 2019

We’ve seen plenty of protest movements lately seeking to change the way we handle national elections. The most high-profile one is probably the push to do away with the Electoral College and go to a popular vote model. Others want the states to award all of their EC votes to the winner of the popular vote, leading to basically the same result. But there’s another effort underway to make a slightly more subtle, but still significant change. Vice.run is trying to gather signatures and build support for putting the VP on a separate ballot line, allowing the voters to directly elect the Vice President rather than having to accept whoever the party’s candidate picks as a running mate. (ABC News)



    There’s a national push for voters to elect the U.S. vice president separately from the president.

    Vice.run, is a campaign that seeks to create a separate and independent ballot line for the vice president in 2020. The group is trying to collect — from all 50 states — voter signatures and pledges in support of the separate vice president election.

    “An independently-elected vice president would give American voters a new level of direct control over who serves in the White House,” Vice.run says on its website. “Further, a separately-elected vice president could provide a moderating influence on the partisanship of the president.”

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A separate election for the VP?

Jazz ShawPosted at 10:31 am on May 6, 2019

We’ve seen plenty of protest movements lately seeking to change the way we handle national elections. The most high-profile one is probably the push to do away with the Electoral College and go to a popular vote model. Others want the states to award all of their EC votes to the winner of the popular vote, leading to basically the same result. But there’s another effort underway to make a slightly more subtle, but still significant change. Vice.run is trying to gather signatures and build support for putting the VP on a separate ballot line, allowing the voters to directly elect the Vice President rather than having to accept whoever the party’s candidate picks as a running mate. (ABC News)



    There’s a national push for voters to elect the U.S. vice president separately from the president.

    Vice.run, is a campaign that seeks to create a separate and independent ballot line for the vice president in 2020. The group is trying to collect — from all 50 states — voter signatures and pledges in support of the separate vice president election.

    “An independently-elected vice president would give American voters a new level of direct control over who serves in the White House,” Vice.run says on its website. “Further, a separately-elected vice president could provide a moderating influence on the partisanship of the president.”

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https://hotair.com/archives/2019/05/06/separate-election-vp/

Technically electors vote for the president and VP separately, and the states can choose how they choose their electors so this really isn't out of bounds. This actually was more in line with the original founding and was the process before 1800. Then, people didn't choose a party ticket but voted for individual candidates for each office.

[Wingnut]

Once again someone wants to fix something that isn't broke.

[jafo2010]

Yes, and back prior to 1800, only those that owned land had the right to vote.  What was started by the founding fathers has no bearing today.  This country is very different from what it once was when founded.

It makes zero sense to have a separate election for the vice president.  If the opposing party's candidate wins, and the president should die in office, the opposing party gets the presidency.  That transfer in power does not match with the will of the people as much as having a VP that can be trusted to some degree to hold the path of the president that was lost.

Who comes up with these goofy ideas?  People hungry for power any way they can get it, that's who!