The Choosing Of The Presidential Electors

 The Choosing Of The Presidential Electors-

According to the 12th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the state legislatures have the authority to pass laws that govern how Presidential electors are to be chosen.

However, it is safe to conclude in reality that is not in the case. There is no way the federal government would allow the state legislatures to pass laws that give it the authority to directly choose Presidential electors. Since the US Civil War gave sovereignty to the federal government, the federal government has and will always allow the choosing of the electors by the electorate only. 

At the same time, the federal government will not necessarily mandate direct popular vote for Presidential electors by the electorate. They will and should allow indirect popular vote for the choosing of electors.

A candidate for Presidential elector should be required to have a permanent home address in a federal congressional district in which they are contesting. That candidate, as should be the case for all candidates for office, cannot be a participant in any branch of government. They also should have to meet all Constitutional requirements.

That Presidential elector candidate cannot have direct connection with any Presidential candidate. The Presidential elector candidate who receives the highest number of popular and publicly casted votes in a ward/district wins that wards/districts' electoral vote. The Presidential elector candidate who wins the highest number of electoral votes in that congressional district wins that election as Presidential elector.

If there is a tie, then the tying candidates for Presidential electors who each won the highest number of locality's ward/districts are then subject to the precincts vote results. The candidate for Presidential elector who wins the highest number of precincts becomes the Presidential elector for that federal congressional district. For a candidate of Presidential elector to win a precinct, he/she must receive the highest number of popular votes which are all publicly cast in that precinct. 

If there is still more than one Presidential elector candidate who has won the highest number of precincts, then the tying elector candidates are subject to the popular vote results of the entire federal congressional district. The Presidential elector candidate who has received the highest number of popular votes in the contested federal congressional district becomes the Presidential elector for that district.

Each State should be mandated to have Presidential electors for each federal congressional district and two extra Presidential electors. The two extra Presidential electors have to be chosen by the upper house of the state legislature. These At-Large electors are selected from a pool of At-Large candidates for Presidential electors who submit their bid for candidacy with the regulatory board governing elections. The Speaker Of The House of Delegates/Assemblymen decides who the Top Ten At-Large Presidential elector candidates that the State Senate member will vote for. 

Of that Top Ten, each state senator will cast votes for a specific candidate. The At-Large Presidential Electors candidates who receive the highest and second highest number of state senate votes become the At-Large Presidential electors. If there is tie for the highest number and/or for the second highest number of state senate votes for this position, then the lieutenant governor will cast any and all tie-breaking votes. 

Cliff Notes Version: The state legislatures will never be allowed to choose the Presidential electors directly. The federal government will certainly ban that as it became the sovereign governmental authority after the Civil War. 

The federal government does not mandate that Presidential electors be chosen by direct popular vote or by electoral voting per state even though that practice is the case currently.

These electors should be chosen by a more extensive electoral voting process only. The Presidential elector candidate cannot have any connection with the Presidential candidate.

The Presidential elector candidate who wins the highest number of wards/districts in the entire congressional district becomes the Presidential elector. 

If there is a tie among the Presidential elector candidates in the number of wards/districts won, then one of those tying candidates who won the highest number of precincts becomes the Presidential elector.

If there is still a tie in the highest number of precincts won, then one of those tying candidates who received the highest number of popular votes in that entire congressional district becomes the Presidential elector.