Commentary On Elections- Part Sixty-Eight (Session One & Session Two)

Commentary On Elections- Part Sixty-Eight (Session One)

According to the U.S. Constitution there are no direct elections for federal head executives nor do states choose, as a whole in proportion to its population, these federal head executives. That document instead stipulates that each state (state government or popular elections) chooses its electors. The number of these electors is proportionate to its population.

The drafters of the Constitution wanted for all states and even territories to choose electors to individually cast their ballots separately for President and for Vice-President. To put it simply, in the present day all states, according to the U.S. Constitution, are supposed to choose 538 people who cast their votes in 538 "pots" for POTUS and then in another 538 "pots" for VPOTUS. Each "pot" is counted individually for the two distinctly separate races of federal head executives.

Commentary On Elections-Part Sixty-Eight (Session Two)

Presidential and vice-presidential electors are indeed state and not federal functionaries. However since federal government became the supreme governmental authority after the end of the American Civil War, these electors should be federal functionaries. They should not be chosen by state governments.

The U.S. Constitution should be amended to reflect the preceding. It should mandate that each and every elector for President and Vice-President should be elected by the eligible electorate at the congressional district level. It should also mandate that the two at-large electors have to be chosen by each legislative house of every state.

The choosing of both Presidential and Vice-Presidential electors has to be population-based due to the fact the functions of both the POTUS and VPOTUS (federal head executives) are based on area democratic models. Cross-verification has to be emphasized for executive office positions.