Presidential electors get to meet and if need be reballot

WI the whole electoral college had met in one place with the option of voting (perhaps up to 7 times over 7 days) if no one candidate won a majority.

In OTL it would have been logistically hard but not impossible in 1787 (and much easier as time went by)

The Constituional convention did not like Democracy and the House of Representatives was seen as a concession to that idea. Giving in effect more power to electors might have appealed to them

I presume that the first time this would make a difference would be 1800.

In OTL Federalists decided that they preferred Burr to Jefferson. If that was what looked like happening when electors got together Democratic Republicans might have voted for some wholly different second candidate.

There would have been no twelth amendment. The Vice President might be more powerful, though would sometimes be a President's opponent,
 
Interesting, I believe that the function of the electors was decided by the states themselves. So in essence the electors were chosen by the state legislature to vote for the candidate the legislature liked best or the popular vote decided the vote for the elector or (I am not sure how true this was) they simply made the decision themselves (as was probably the original case in some states) so basically, in the original states the situations are all different I am willing to bet that some states didn't give them the option to cast the vote themselves. So in essence the election could come down to a few men who had the latitude to make the decision. I can see calls of corrupt bargain coming much earlier.

How did you hit on 7 times?
 
My Version

Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.

(The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for two persons, of whom one at least shall not lie an Inhabitant of the same State with themselves. And they shall make a List of all the Persons voted for, and of the Number of Votes for each; which List 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. The President of the Senate shall, in the Presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the Certificates, and the Votes shall then be counted. The Person having the greatest Number of Votes shall be the President, if such Number be a Majority of the whole Number of Electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such Majority, and have an equal Number of Votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately chuse by Ballot one of them for President; and if no Person have a Majority, then from the five highest on the List the said House shall in like Manner chuse the President. But in chusing the President, the Votes shall be taken by States, the Representation from each State having one Vote; a quorum for this Purpose shall consist of a Member or Members from two-thirds of the States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice. In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal Votes, the Senate shall chuse from them by Ballot the Vice-President.) (This clause in parentheses was superseded by the 12th Amendment.)

The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.

Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the Number of Electorial Districts to which the State may be entitled in the Congress plus two electors to represent the states**: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.

The Electors shall then meet in Congress Assembled* on the second Monday in January, and Elect the President and Vice President, from all Candidates properly proposed*** in such Manner as the Legislature of the States thereof may direct.

And they shall make a List of all the Persons voted for, and of the Number of Votes for each; which List 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. The President of the Senate shall, in the Presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open The Letter, and the Votes shall then be Read, and the Winners announced.

The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Place of Meeting, But the Manner and Rules governing the Meeting shall be that as decided by the Electorial Congress.


*Main POD
** Just to mess up the Election Nite Map. I think this would be interpreted as giving the vote to the winner of the District. And not winner take the whole state.

Looked a post-election 2008 district map and Obama still won the Electorial Vote -- But it was a lot closer than the per State Tally..

***This will make it easier for Third parties to get Votes.
 
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