Cheney's Vice Presidency Unconstitutional???

[cui bono]

Thanks to starroute's post: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2984140&mesg_id=2984835
of this Rolling Stone article about Cheney: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/6450422/the_curse_of_dick_cheney
I read the following:

Since Cheney lived in Texas at the time, choosing him led Bush into a situation that, if the words of our Founding Fathers still have any meaning, is unconstitutional. The Constitution forbids a state's electors from voting for candidates for president and vice president who are both "an inhabitant of the same state as themselves." Yet by voting for Bush and Cheney, electors in Texas did precisely that. Cheney lived in Texas, had a Texas driver's license and filed his federal income tax using a Texas address. He had also voted in Texas, not in Wyoming, a state where he had not lived full-time for decades.

I googled for more info and all I have come up with so far is from wikipedia's Vice Presidency entry:

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 homestate, in order to run for election as Vice President alongside George W. Bush, who was then the governor of Texas.

So did Cheney get his residency changed in time? Was it a legal maneuver? Or is his holding of that office unconstutional?

[Eric J in MN]

1. There was a lawsuit, but the judge dismissed it. NT

NT

[cui bono]

2. Ah, okay, thanks. n/t

[wakeme2008]

3. Right he lived worked voted in Texas

but claimed he was not a Texas resident..... All BS

[KharmaTrain]

4. Chenney Was A Wyoming Resident...

A bunch of us argued Chenney's residency in the 2000 election. The "explanation" was that while Chenney had a residence in Texas, he still maintained his voting registration in Wyoming (even though no proof of such a registration was ever produced). If I remember, there was also a call to prove that Chenney had voted in Wyoming in recent elections and somehow some record showed up that "proved" he wasn't a Texan.

Nice try...it'd sure be nice to disqualify this entire regime on a 6 year old technicality.

[SoCalDem]

5. Cheney raced back to Wyoming, registered to vote there and

was miraculously transformed from Texican to Wyomaniac..even though he was truly a resident of texas, and had been for decades.. :grr:

of course after some serious judge-shopping, they found one who said it was okee-dokee :)

[cui bono]

6. Gee I wonder how that happened? n/t

[lovuian]

7. Good find You would think somebody would have find it

:crazy:

[goforit]

8. Wow!! This is good news!!

[Poiuyt]

9. Do you all remember who led Bush's search for someone to serve with him as a VP candidate?

[Golden Raisin]

10. Ironic since the Bush/Cheney years have taught us

that the Constitution doesn't mean much anymore and is wheezing perilously on life support. The new Dem Congress better start propping up & restoring our Constitution on Day 1. It's been under vicious & relentless attack for the last 6 years.

[porphyrian]

11. I think the list of things this administration has done Constitutionally is shorter. - n/t