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The Electoral Task - Introduction

About these postings:
This is the first of a series of posts that together will explain what it means to be a certified elector. The posts will also show why the nation needs your readiness to serve as a trained and willing volunteer to elect the president if you are randomly selected to do so. 

At all times you are invited to visit the web site of this movement that will unite the nation as never before. The movement will separate the three branches of Government as was intended by the Founding Fathers.

The web site is electorswanted.com The web site will be the link you will use if you decide to volunteer as an elector. 

Finding and choosing a President
The task of an elector in Connecticut and all other states will be to find, research, interview and evaluate candidates for President of the United States. This task will be shared in CT with 6 other electors. As other states join the movement, the search team will consist of all 538 electors.

On the Presidential selection date, each elector will cast a secret ballot with the name of the elector's favored candidate for President.  

These tasks are detailed from the principles established in the Constitution for the selection of the President of the United States. The principles are contained in Article II, Section 1 of that document.

Party assigned electors
For over 200 years electors in CT and all states have been assigned by political parties. Such electors have only one task and that is to write the name of their party's candidate on the secret ballot.

The movement discussed here promotes "the obvious" that  the word and the spirit of article II precludes assignment of electors whose vote is predetermined. The Constitution gives the Connecticut state legislature "the full authority" to pick the seven electors, but we argue that the electors thus selected must be free and independent when they cast their secret ballots. The movement will begin immediately to get the state court to end party assignment of electors. 

If the court does not agree
If the court does not side with the movement, then the 7 Connecticut and other state electors assigned by random search of the certified electors from the volunteer pool will perform their tasks to the end of finding a presidential candidate to run in the general election. This side run will result in the forming of a "Presidential Party" whose only function is to run a constitutionally valid candidate for President every four years. 

The next posting
The next posting will discuss the problems with party control of electors. These problems, together with a profound belief in the framers of the Constitution, are what drives the movement's Constitutional method of selecting a President      


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