Commentary On Elections-Part Six (Session Three)

In today's "federalized" system in the USA in which federal government is sovereign, neither what is cited in the U.S. Constitution nor the present manner in choosing electors is correct.

The U.S. or American Constitution believed that each state legislature government should pass its own law in the appointment of electors by state government. Since states are no longer sovereign and are indeed just franchises of the U.S.A., it makes no sense for state government to pick electors since those electors are no longer a distinctly and solely representative of each state. In other words since there is no real separation between state and federal governments, there is no point for a state government to implement that measure.

At the same time the current system of choosing electors is not at all representative and appropriate. Presently each POTUS/VPOTUS candidate and/or his/her party chooses electors. In 48 states the candidate with the most votes throughout the state has his/her electors choose their state's choice for POTUS/VPOTUS. In the remaining two states the candidate with the most votes throughout each congressional district has his/her electors choose their state's choice for POTUS/VPOTUS.

The problem with the preceding is what is the point of having electors if 1) The direct popular vote decides the election. 2) The candidates choose their electors. Obviously no elector chosen by a candidate will vote against that candidate. The purpose of setting up the elector system was to ensure that neither populism nor government officials would get to decide who the President and Vice-President would be. Yet with the current system populism overrides what the principles of the elector system are based on.

Electors for POTUS/VPOTUS should not be chosen by any government official nor should they be chosen by a candidate for that office. They should be chosen by electoral popular vote in each U.S. Congressional district. The remaining two at-large electors should be chosen from each state legislative house. (one from the upper legislative body and one from the lower legislative body).

Cliff Notes Version: Since government has changed from the time the U.S. Constitution was written in as much as states are no longer republics, the constitutional system for picking electors for President and Vice-President is no longer viable. State government officials should not appoint electors.

However the current system of how the President and Vice-President are chosen is not compatible with the core ideals of Representative governance either. Presidential candidates and/or political parties should not as well pick electors.

Federal head executives' electors have to be chosen by the People through electoral popular vote in each congressional district. The two at-large electors per state are chosen by each state legislative house with each house choosing one elector.