There is a fundamental problem with electing the president by any kind
of popular vote, even a vote for electors. It is simply not the best
way to get the best persons for that role. I have drafted a
constitutional amendment to do it better:
Selecting electors for president and vice-president
The electors for president and vice-president shall be selected in
each state by the following procedure:
- An initial panel of citizens qualified to vote in that state
equal
to one hundred times the number of electors to be selected from that
state shall be selected at random, in a process that shall be
supervised by a randomly-selected grand jury specially empaneled for
that task;
- Members of this initial panel shall take an examination in
which
each shall recite from memory 20 randomly selected clauses of this
Constitution, and shall receive a score of one for each clause he or
she is able to recite without error;
- A second panel shall be selected from the first, consisting of
ten
times the number of electors to be selected, with the odds of selecting
each weighted by the score he or she received in the examination, and
with exclusion of any who scored zero;
- Members of the second panel shall meet, and each shall rank all
the
others in descending order of civic virtue, giving a score indicating
the rank consisting of the number of panelists for the highest down to
one for the lowest;
- The electors shall then be selected from this second panel at
random, but weighted by his or her average rank from the previous round
of peer assessments.
-- Jon
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