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Originally Posted by radioflyertoo
Orginially the electors in the electorial college would vote for Pres. and VP based on the popular vote for each canidate, since a you didn't vote for a duo (party). So under the orginial rules the Pres elect and VP elect could come from different parties (as you can guess this caused considerable conflict). So the constitution was changed to correct this.
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The original rules were set in place before there
was a "party" system - something so ridiculous simply didn't occur to the writers of the constitution.