The Choosing Of Vice-President-The President Of The US Senate- By Harsha Sankar(October 2020)

 

The Choosing Of Vice-President-The President Of The US Senate- 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 Vice-President. 

One requirement for eligibility is ballot access. A Vice-Presidential 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 Vice-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 majority of electors are unable to choose the candidate for Vice-President, then the candidate whose electors received the majority of electoral votes becomes that state's choice for Vice-President. In other words, the candidate whose electors who won the majority of localities' precincts throughout the state delegate/assembly districts becomes that state's choice for Vice-President.

If a candidate for federal head executives, after failing to receive the majority of elector votes, fails again to receive the majority of electoral votes, then the following must be implemented.

From the pool of Top Two elector vote-getting candidates, the candidate for either head executive positions(President and/or Vice-President) whose electors received the most direct popular votes in total becomes the state's choice for that certain head executive position.

In other words, the candidate has a certain number of electors cast a vote for him or her. The total number of votes by eligible voters for these specific electors who chose one of these two available candidates are counted. The candidate from this pool of two whose electors received the most number of direct popular votes by eligible voters becomes the state's choice for that certain head executive position. 

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 should not be nominated by a candidate for Vice-President. Instead, the candidate for any head executive position should not have direct affiliation with any candidate for the elector position.  

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 Vice-President for two reasons.  

1. The Vice-President is required to only execute the law and not make the law.Therefore,their discretion must be kept to a minimum as he/she manages the US Senate and acts on ceremonial behalf of the President. The Vice-President can never be allowed to make law. 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 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 two 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.  

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. 

The legislatures in each state should pick the remaining two at-large electors so that each state has the same number of electors that match its total number of Senators and House Representatives.

The electors select their state's choice for Vice-President based on majority approval. If majority approval cannot be obtained, then the candidate whose electors received the highest number of direct popular votes is selected as that state's choice for that position. 

The process is the same for the Vice-Presidential race as it is for the Presidential race except for one notable exception. While the state's choice of President is allocated electoral votes that matches its number of senators and house representatives, the electoral votes allocated to each state for the Vice-Presidential race should not be based on the same principle. In the VP race, only two electoral votes will be assigned to the state's choice. The representation of each state will be two votes. 

The reason why each state in the USA gets the same number of electoral votes, which is two, is to signify the matching of the number of senators for each state. Since the Vice-President is also the President Of The Senate, every state must have the same voting authority in choosing this position. Since the Vice-President performs appearances, meetings, ceremonial duties, and an advisory role on the President's behalf, it is equally important that each state has the same voting authority in picking this apolitical position.