THE TWELFTH AMENDMENT

RATIFIED ON SEPTEMBER 25, 1804

THIS AMENDMENT IS ABOUT

• Advantages:
• The president and vice president being elected separately.
• The president or vice president not being elected if either of them come from a different political party.
• Disadvantages:
• Citizens thought their votes were being counted together, and that lead to a protest.

THIS AMENDMENT WAS PROPOSED BECAUSE

• If the president or vice president came from a different political party,
• then they would not be able to work together.
• Then, the citizens would have to vote again,
• and a new president or vice president would have to be elected

COURT CASE

• Florida electors were unable to commit themselves to either Bush or Gore.
• Recounts were started, then stopped as Republicans and Democrats
• argued over what standards to apply, and that situation was huge.

IN THE END,

• When the contest between George W. Bush and Al Gore proved to close to call,
• the citizens resorted to a series of lawsuits in an effort to settle the situation.
• The cases largely concerned the situation of vote counting, and recounting in the state of Florida.

IN CONCLUSION,

• These suits proceeded in the state court system and in federal court.
• There were charges of voter intimidation, ballot rigging, and all manner of political shenanigans.
• Something had to be done.

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