Electors Voting Process: Part Four

Electors Voting Process: Part Four

Since the purpose of the electors is to choose the President and Vice-President independently on behalf of each state, then the electorate should not know in advance who the electors or even who each elector will choose as President. Otherwise what would be the point of having electors? The electorate might as well choose these two officeholders either directly or through electoral voting instead of elector voting.

The U.S. Constitution does not specify the dates of when electors are to be chosen and of when electors choose the candidate to be both President and Vice-President. It allows U.S. Congress to make the law governing this. It should instead be written in the U.S. Constitution that stipulates that electors need to be chosen a full year before these chosen electors cast ballots for the Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidate. Therefore electors are chosen before candidates for these two offices are officially announced to the electorate.

Candidates for President and Vice-President are eligible if they meet the signature requirements per state as well as all the other requirements. They should file their applications with the vice-governor's office in each state.