The Constitution also prohibits electors from voting for both a presidential and vice presidential

candidate from the same state as themselves. In theory, this might deny a vice presidential
candidate with the most electoral votes the absolute majority required to secure election, even if
the presidential candidate is elected, and place the vice presidential election in the hands of the
Senate. In practice, this requirement is easily circumvented by having the candidate for vice
president change the state of residency as was done by Dick Cheney, who changed his legal
residency from Texas to Wyoming, his original home state, in order to run for election as vice
president alongside George W. Bush, who was then the governor of Texas.