Electors Voting Process: Part One

 

The U.S. Constitution does not specifies the dates of choosing the electors for President and Vice President. Furthermore it does not specify the date in which electors choose the President and Vice-President.

Since federal law specifies these dates, the dates can be changed by an act of U.S. Congress. Currently the electors choose these two officeholders about six weeks after they have been formally chosen themselves. This needs to change. 

When the American Constitution was drafted, the states were independent sovereign republics. Because they had much more autonomy than they do after the end of the U.S. Civil War, the candidates for President did no campaigning to the electorate. These officeholders were selected at the discretion of the electors. 

The elector system was proposed as a compromise amongst the drafters of the American Constitution. There were one set of these founders who wanted the state legislatures to choose the President and Vice-President. There were also another set who wanted the electorate to directly choose the President, possibly by National Popular Vote. Therefore the elector system was deemed a "middle ground". It supposedly prevented any legislature (state or federal) and the electorate from directly choosing these officeholders in the federal executive branch. 

Currently the direct popular vote is choosing these officeholders on a state-by-state basis as electoral votes are allocated to each state based on its population. That is not the manner of choosing the President and Vice-President that the American Constitution has prescribed. 

Please read Electors Voting Process-Part Two. It explains the changes that need to be made to ensure proper Representative Governance.