Electors Voting Process: Part Five

Electors Voting Process: Part Five 

As cited earlier in my posts, the state legislatures should not make the law on how electors for President and Vice-President are chosen. Instead this method of choosing should be clearly written in the U.S. Constitution. 

As governance is different now than at the time of the birth of the nation, the reason why the U.S. Constitution should spell out this process is self-evident. 

One feature that finally needs to be changed is that all electors must be individually chosen by an electorate belonging to a different area so that each elector is free to cast his/her vote for the Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidate. If the state legislature chooses the electors, these electors are chosen as one group by the same group. Therefore each elector is not free to cast his/her vote freely nor are they representative of the electorate. 

Currently the electors are compelled to vote for the candidate that the plurality of the electorate votes for. This is hardly Representative Democratic mode. It is instead direct democratic mode as each elector is no longer free, as was the intent of the drafters of the American Constitution, to cast his/her vote for the Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidate of his/her choice. Moreover, these electors have no voting rights as all must vote according to the plurality of one group and the same group, the electorate. 

The idea of the concept of electors was to have a buffer between the constituents and the legislatures in choosing the positions of President and Vice-President.

The state legislatures and especially the U.S. Congress should never choose these electors as that would be Imperial Democratic Mode. However, the plurality of the electorate should not decide how the electors should vote because that would be direct democratic mode.

Read my next post to discover how each and every elector should be chosen.