<P> When George Washington decided not to seek a third term problems with the original procedure emerged . </P> <P> In the 1796 election, John Adams, the Federalist Party presidential candidate, received a majority of the electoral votes . However, the Federalist electors scattered their second votes, resulting in the Democratic - Republican Party presidential candidate, Thomas Jefferson, receiving the second highest number of electoral votes and thus being elected Vice President . It became apparent that if the Vice President was a defeated electoral opponent of the President the two might not work together effectively . By having the President and Vice President elected on a party ticket, this possibility would be eliminated but it raised a different flaw in the arrangements . </P> <P> On January 6, 1797, Representative William L. Smith of South Carolina responded to this result by presenting a resolution on the floor of the House of Representatives for an amendment to the Constitution requiring each elector to cast one vote for President and another for Vice President . However, no action was taken on his proposal, setting the stage for the deadlocked election of 1800 . </P> <P> The 1800 election exposed a defect in the original formula in that if each member of the Electoral College followed party tickets, there would be a tie between the two candidates from the most popular ticket . The emergence of partisan political activity caused the failure of the original constitutional plan . </P>

Which of these was a result of the twelfth amendment to the us constitution