Thank you for posting Brian Griffen.
With all due respect, several problems with Artice I, Section 5 today are as follows imo.
First, the Founding States gave ordinary qualified citizen voters the power to vote only for House members, not senators or POTUS, since House uniquely had power to originate revenue appropriation bills (1.7.1).
But the state legislatures later foolishly caved to pressure from anti-constitutional republic Progressive Movement to ratify the ill-conceived 17th Amendment. By doing so, state houses unthinkingly gave up the voices of the state legislatures in Congress, effectively putting Congress under mob rule imo.
Also, the constitutionally undefined political parties now blatantly ignore major parts of 12th Amendment (12A) procedures for counting electoral votes. For example, state “winner-take all” laws for electoral votes are unconstitutional under 12A imo
Excerpted from the 12th Amendment: "The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice- President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate [emphasis added]; […]"
Also, note that the states have never expressly constitutionally given ordinary qualified citizen voters the specific power to vote for POTUS like citizens have for members of Congress. So the states letting people vote for president is a politically correct right to give misguided, low-information voters the feeling that they are in control of the Oval Office imo, evidenced by the election fraud currently being presented.
Really great post.