The only problem with the electoral college, is the electors.
There should NOT BE ANY ELECTORS.
Electors are supposed to do the will of the voters. Thus, the electors don’t really have any say as to how they should be voting, and so, they should be eliminated.
The people spoke, and the electors are only a formality.
Instead of the electoral college being represented by people, just eliminate the people part, and let the electoral college be just a simple number. The number can’t vote. The number represents the same vote as an elector, but it can’t change it’s mind, and therefore, it can’t change the will of the people.
It is the will of the people, and no single person should be granted any power over the will of the people. Not voting the way the people decided, is a betrayal of the will of the people. Any elector that votes against what the people decided, would be disenfranchising thousands, if not millions of people. Assigning a live people to represent “elector counts”, is in itself, contrary to the constitution.
That someone with political beliefs that are contrary to that of the winner of that electoral vote, does not authorize that person to disregard the decision by thousands that are represented by that elector.
It’s time to remove the idea that electoral college votes have to be actual people.
Nope.
What if the nominee dies?
What if the nominee is abducted by a foreign power?
What if the nominee ... (insert unusual, unlikely event preventing taking office).
what if there are three nominees with EC members, and no one nominee has a simple majority of EC members?
The fallback is that the EC can still function as the FFs intended in a pinch. The notion of reeplacing human ECs with automatic votes does not cover various corner cases that the FF EC design does.
It’s time to remove the idea that electoral college votes have to be actual people.
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I fully agree with you!
Not a good idea. Actual people as electors prevented a President Aaron Burr, an ancestor of Al Gore, with a comparable megalomaniac complex.