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How would that solve any problems? Submitting a petition to be on a ballot is a basic effort for national party. That's practically the the reason a national p

• maxerickson 11y ago
  It would make the conventions irrelevant. The national party chooses the candidate to place on ballots using whatever rules they set for the national convention. If that wasn't the case, there wouldn't be all the procedural nonsense that we see put towards trying to win the national conventions, people that thought they had a serious shot at getting a plurality of votes would organize to get themselves on ballots. We'd have a ballot this fall with 10 names on it, not 2.5. Click to show the partisan requirements here and note the huge disparities with independents: https://ballotpedia.org/Ballot_access_for_presidential_candidates#Party_nomination_processes https://ballotpedia.org/Ballot_access_for_presidential_candi... So not only is there the huge well organized machine you mention could easily collect signatures, there is also generally a much easier (and tightly controlled) path to the ballot. edit: It's quite likely that the president would be selected by the Electoral College, but personally I'd prefer that to the current process where the president is selected by the superior voter targeting strategy.