What Should Happen When Presidential Electors Fail To Provide Majority Support

 

If the Presidential electors fail to muster the majority support needed to choose the President, the Top Three elector vote getting POTUS candidates are then subject to selection by the members of the House of Representatives.These federal legislative lower house members are grouped in the state that their district is in. Each state casts its one electoral vote based on the decision collectively taken by its federal legislative lower house members. The POTUS candidate who wins the majority of states' electoral votes serves as POTUS in the next term. If no POTUS can garner this necessary majority of electoral votes, then the most recently chosen VPOTUS becomes the Acting POTUS to serve the entire next term as such.  

If  the Vice-Presidential electors fail to muster the majority support needed to choose the Vice-President, the Top Two electors' vote recipients are then subject to selection by the U.S. Senate. Out of these Top Two VPOTUS candidates, the candidate who receives the majority of votes from U.S. Senators wins the VPOTUS race. 

Another purpose of this post is to explain why the Top Three Presidential candidates are subject to selection, if the electors fail to elect the POTUS. This post also explains why only the Top Two VP candidates are subject to selection if the electors fail to elect the VPOTUS. 

The President needs a mandate considering the considerable authority given to that office. That is why the winner of the Presidential race must get a majority of states, that the House Representatives cast ballots on behalf of, to choose the POTUS out of the three candidates. The framers of the U.S. Constitution wanted the winner of the Presidential race to win more states than the other two candidates combined in case the electors were unsuccessful in their choosing.

They wanted the President to win convincingly because of the authority that office wields. Because the Vice-President does not have nearly as much authority as the President, these framers limited the selection of the Vice-President by a federal legislative body to the Top Two elector vote getting candidates only.  

Cliff Notes Version: There is a reason why the POTUS candidate, out of the Top Three Presidential candidates, must win the majority of states in which the federal legislative house members are grouped. If the electors fail to choose the President, the elected President must win a relative mandate before he is awarded Presidential authority. The President, as head of the federal executive branch and as America's representative to other nations and foreign entities, is given much authority. 

The Vice-President, on the other hand, has far less authority. Therefore a candidate just needs more members of  a certain legislative body to cast votes for him or her than the other Vice-Presidential candidate. That certain legislative body chooses the winner out of the Top Two electoral vote recipients for that position.