Former Vice President Dick Cheney has died at the age of 84. His legacy is significant in a range of domains, but I wanted to recount four small election law anecdotes about him.

First, Cheney was named George W. Bush’s vice presidential nominee in the summer of 2000. Both were inhabitants of Texas. Cheney quickly established inhabitancy in Wyoming on account of the Twelfth Amendment : “The Electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves . . . .” Voters sued to block Texas’s electors from casting votes for Bush and Cheney. A federal court in Jones v. Bush found that the voters lacked standing, but also that “Secretary Cheney has been at some point

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