“...We don’t need this step in the process. ...”
That’s just what the left wants.
Don’t give in to it; you don’t want the left and East coasts dictating everything .
Tighter vetting, bind the electors & don’t let them go rogue.
1. The political parties need to do more to ensure that their nominee picks their Electors. That way if the Elector goes rogue then the blame can be put on the nominee.
2. The Electors in any given State should be allowed to dismiss a fellow Elector in case the Elector is “faithless” & then replace their vote with an alternate Elector of their choosing. For example, Wyoming has 3 Electors. If one of them had voted for Clinton then the other two could then dismiss them and replace them with someone else to vote for Trump.
3. Surety bond of some amount should be mandatory. Is 100K the right amount? Maybe?
4. If someone decides “I cannot in good faith vote as I’m expected” then they should be free to resign before the Electoral College vote and be replaced by an alternate pre-selected by the Party & their nominee.
5. Long live the Constitution!! Long live the Electoral College :)
” Tighter vetting, bind the electors & don’t let them go rogue.”
Then that defeats the purpose of this setup, which is to allow the electors to go rogue in order to keep a “lunatic” that voters elected from taking office.
Think about how crazy that is. After a two year campaign voters millions of electors are so bamboozled that they elect someone that is so incredibly unfit that electors of his party would actually vote against the will of the electorate.
It’s totally preposterous, and it leave open the very possibility of one or two rogue electors overturning a close election.
Again, the electors voting is a very unnecessary step.