Electors Voting Process: Part Three

 

Electors Voting Process: Part Three 

Electors also should not be directly chosen by the state legislatures even though the U.S Constitution permits them to do so. The U.S. Constitution only permitted this because individual states were the sovereign governmental authorities back then. Now that governance has been federally-centric since the end of the Civil War, the federal government should not allow co-mingling of the activity of choosing electors for the federal head executives. To keep this activity totally federal, the federal government should demand that the electorate participate actively in the choosing of these electors. 

After the Civil War, the states' governments became franchises of the federal government. For this phenomenon to remain this way, the federal government should not want the interference of state governments in the choosing of federal head executives.

No state legislature currently chooses these electors directly. That practice should not ever be allowed to happen, not just for the reasons previously described, but also for another major reason. 

What would be the point of allowing state legislatures to choose these electors directly since in all likelihood they will pick electors who belong to the party which has the plurality in the state legislatures? The state legislatures might as well be allowed to directly choose the state's choice for President if this was the case. 

Finally the U.S. Constitution gives state governments the authority to pass laws that govern the choosing of electors. There could be several ways in which these electors are chosen. Since the federal government has been the supreme governmental authority for over 150 years. the activity is the choosing of electors for federal head executives must be uniform. It must be documented in the nation's charter, the U.S. Constitution.