No Need For Massive Campaigning For White House Offices- By Harsha Sankar(October 2020)

According to the US Constitution, the electors meet in their respective states after they are chosen according to laws passed by the state legislature. They are mandated to choose an eligible candidate for President and Vice-President.

One requirement for eligibility is ballot access. A candidate has to gather enough signatures within the state, with a minimum limit of signatures coming from each congressional district, to appear on the ballot for electors' use only. Either a candidate can do this independently or through a political party. Once a candidate has accomplished that, then the electors in each state decide based on the "resume" of a candidate who will be their choice for President on a state by state basis. Each state has its electors deliver its decision, based on their majority approval, for the state's choice of candidate. If a candidate is not the recipient of majority approval by its electors, then the state's choice of candidate for President is decided by the highest number of votes cast directly by the state electorate.

Electors should not be a participant in any branch of government for at least one year prior to his/her election. That candidate should also neither belong to any organization that is either not publicly announced nor should its contents of its meetings be sealed in secrecy for at least two years prior to the election. Finally, that candidate should not belong to any group comprised solely of government branch participants. Electors must be established US citizens. They must have a registered physical address in the specific state that they serve for a minimum of five years. An elector must also have attained the age of twenty-five.

Finally,in terms of eligibility,a elector has to gather enough signatures within their congressional district,with a minimum limit for each locality,to appear on the ballot. Either an elector can achieve this ballot access independently,through a political party, or through an independent candidate. In plain words, an elector does not necessarily have to be nominated by a candidate for President.

Obviously the candidates have to let the electors know their positions and core principles. However,there is no need for them to do massive campaigning on a grassroots level for an extended period in reaching out to 100+ million citizens. The drafters of the US Constitution did not want the average citizen to choose the President or Vice-President for two reasons.

1.Both officeholders are required to only execute the law and not make the law. Therefore,their discretion must be kept to a minimum except when it comes to vetoing bills and negotiating treaties. Yet the President,in exercising that discretionary authority, can never be allowed to make law. The same holds true for the Vice-President. Those who are supposed to enforce the law have to strictly adhere to the US Constitution and ideals it's supposed to be based on. This thereby limits their discretion.

Yet when 100+ million people vote for a candidate for this office, the constitutional constraints disappear. The candidates, in appealing to such a vast base, have to inherently pander to the sensibilities of the voters in order to get their approval. The constitutional duties of both the POTUS and VPOTUS invariably gets "swept under the rug by winds of populism".

2. The average voter unfortunately does not understand the constitutional duties of public officials as most have not read that document, much less understand it. How else would blatantly unConstitutional Bar Associations and their unlawful agents, the prohibited "attorneys", reach such dominant and ruling class status?

State governments are no longer sovereign and independent but rather are franchises of the federal government. Due to this, the US Constitution must be amended to mandate that electors be elected by popular vote, public balloting and electoral voting, per congressional district. Of course it should still allow the state legislature to each pick the remaining two at large electors as it sees fit.

It is important that The People, and not the state legislatures, pick the electors by this process so that there are proper checks and balances. The Federal Government should not have so much control of how these officeholders are chosen. The proper electorate. and not the current FED controlled state legislatures, are the best checks and balances in choosing the electors for both offices.

The election of electors should be by direct and popular vote for President, provided it is electorally vote-based both per locality and per population. In locality electoral voting, every locality, regardless of population and area-size, receive the same number of electoral votes if it entirely fits in a congressional district. If a locality is split and belongs to two congressional districts, then its number of electoral votes is split by half, regardless of how that locality is split. The reason why this election is electorally vote-based per locality is because the President interacts more closely with the Senate and has State duties. The President represents and impacts the entire nation, not just a specific group within the nation.

The President also has to duly represent the People directly. After all, he or she signs off or vetoes legislation that originates in the House Of Representatives. Thereby, population electoral voting is also  needed to go along with locality electoral voting. Every locality should be allocated electoral votes based  on its population.

There should be a separate elector for the Vice-President as each Congressional district throughout the USA should allow the direct and popular election for this position, provided it is electorally vote-based per locality. To be specific, every locality, regardless of population and area-size, receive the same number of electoral votes if it entirely fits in a congressional district. If a locality is split and belongs to two congressional districts, then its number of electoral votes is split by half, regardless of how that locality is split.  The reason why this election is electorally vote-based per locality is because the Vice-President has Senate and State duties. The Vice-President represents and impacts the entire nation, not just a specific group within the nation.