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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > TV IV > VEEP Season 5 - Gritty re-enactment of actual US politics
 
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Lord Hydronium
Sep 25, 2007

Non, je ne regrette rien

Lycus posted:

It's not how it really works, the show is just simplifying it for comedy.

Real life: the Senate picks the Vice President-elect. The House would keep voting until someone got 26. If Inauguration Day came, Tom would become Acting President and the House would keep re-voting. When someone finally gets 26, they would be President and Tom would be Vice President.

In the show: the House vote only happens once, so if no one wins, the Vice-president-elect becomes the President-elect.
Since the Speaker is in league with Tom, they mentioned that he would only allow the one vote to be held. Now that would probably be of questionable constitutionality as well, and there are ways for the House to force a vote without the Speaker, but it was addressed.

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