Electoral College Revisions

[Jarlaxle]

Voting to take place only at election day polling places on election day except for absentee mail-in ballots allowed to USA Military members serving overseas on election day.

Major issue here. Some people just cannot get to the polls on election day. There NEEDS to be another way (not necessarily mail ballots) to vote for those people.

 

[Jarlaxle]

1) The 23 rd Amendment is Repealed
2) The President Vote is to conducted in the several States using only hand marked paper ballots.
3) Only previously registered to vote US Citizens never convicted of a Felony will be permitted to vote. Voting to take place only at election day polling places on election day except for absentee mail-in ballots allowed to USA Military members serving overseas on election day. Voters must show picture ID at the polling place.
4) All vote counting to be done publicly and audio/visually recorded. Destruction of such records prior to five years after election day will be considered a felony federal crime and punished as congress may direct. Three non-partisan US Citizen Federally paid poll watchers to be assigned to every voting precinct at least two of whom must not be a precinct resident and one the resident of another State. Interference with their Duties will be considered a felony federal crime and punished as congress may direct.
5) Candidates for the Presidency must demonstrate status as a Natural Born Citizen before being placed on any State ballot.. NBC for this purpose is defined as BOTH of the candidate's parents being USA Citizens (without any dual citizenship) at the time of the candidate's birth and the birth taking place within the borders of one of the several States.
6) Electoral Votes to be apportioned as follows-

a) one(1) EV for each US House District.Awarded to winner of largest number of Presidential votes cast in the district. TOTAL 435. Elector to be chosen by Lot from US Citizens over age 30 in each House District.

b) two(2) EV for each State. Awarded to winner of the largest number of votes cast among a joint session of all houses of the State's legislature (excluding any legislator not a US Citizen) plus the State's Governor. TOTAL 100. Electors to be chosen by Lot from those voting

c) One hundred(100) EV from the USA at large to awarded one(1) EV for each full percent of the popular vote received nationwide by each candidate. Otherwise unawarded fractional EV's to go to the candidate with the most votes received. TOTAL 100. Electors to be chosen by Lot from US Citizens over age 30 currently residing in the several States of the USA.

GRAND TOTAL 635 EV. 318 EV required to elect a President. After the first vote round Electors for all candidates except the top two vote recipients are unbound for the second vote in which they must shift to one of the top two.

7) EV's must be cast per the will of the voter's in each particular case. Elector's to have a special status to raise questions regarding acts of fraud or malfeasance in the Presidential Election Upon petition by 50 or more Electors the US House is bound to appoint a special prosecutor.

Felons can't vote. Well there goes the vast majority of the lefts black and latino voters.

Felons voting or not depends entirely on the state. (In fact, two states actually allow felons to vote while incarcerated.)