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

The U.S. Senate should be chosen by the state legislatures so that it does not become an extension of the U.S. House of Representatives. That in itself would breed tyranny. Since state governments have been "franchises" of the federal government since the end of the American Civil War, the chief head executive of each state should not be involved in this choosing. The governor in each state has to execute the law in accordance to the law the U.S. Senate passes, thereby engaging the governor in a palpable conflict of interest if he/she helped to choose members of the U.S. Senate.

The vice-governor is only supposed to be the president of the state senate. Therefore that officeholder's involvement in this choosing should not be prohibited. The vice-governor of each state can accept applications from all eligible citizens of that state who are interested in vying for a seat in the U.S. Senate. He/she can then restrict the field of candidates to five applicants who are located in one of the specific U.S. Senatorial zones of each state. He/she would send this list to the members of the state house of delegates/assemblypeople who are located in one of the specific U.S. Senatorial zones of each state. These specific members would review this list in order to appoint an U.S. Senator.

Once these lower state legislative house members in each specific U.S. Senatorial zone makes such an appointment by appointing the candidate who received the most ballots by them, the state senate will have the duty to make confirmation based on a majority vote of all its members in each senatorial zone only. A quorum of two-thirds casting ballots must exist for all voting sessions that provides such confirmation.

If the state senate members in a specific U.S. Senatorial zone cannot muster confirmation, then the state house of delegates/assemblypeople in a specific U.S. senatorial zone has to immediately schedule a revote excluding the candidate who failed to receive confirmation by the state senate members who belong to a specific senatorial zone. The next U.S. Senatorial candidate appointed by specific senatorial zone members of the state lower legislative house will only need 45% approval by the specific U.S. Senatorial zone members of the state upper legislative house in order to receive confirmation. If the members belonging to a specific U.S. Senatorial zone in the state senate again are unable to provide confirmation, the specific U.S. Senatorial zone members who belong to the state lower legislative house will have to immediately schedule a revote.

The process continues as before with this following exception. The percentage of state senate members, belonging exclusively to a specific U.S. senatorial zone, required to provide confirmation decreases 5% every time they vote to confirm a new candidate until a candidate is finally confirmed by this state upper house legislative body.