V.  ELECTORAL BRANCH[1]

1.  The Electoral Branch consists of an Electoral College and an Election Board. 

2.  The Electoral College will consist of persons who are honorably retired from elected or appointed federal service, who are at least the minimum age and less than the maximum age defined by law, and who voluntarily register to serve without remuneration[2]. 

3.  Procedures will be established so that the Electoral College can act as a body whereby the votes of members cast from remote locations can be counted. 

4.  The Election Board will consist of ten members of the Electoral College who will receive remuneration.  Terms will run from July 1 to June 30.  Vacancies on the Board will occur when a member dies or resigns or has served three years. 

5. On May 15 of each year, the House of Representatives will divide into caucuses.  Each caucus will include at least 26% of the Representatives, unless one caucus has more than 74% of the Representatives, in which case a second caucus will be formed.  Each caucus will nominate two members of the Electoral College to fill each current and anticipated vacancy on the Election Board.  From the nominees of more than one caucus, the Senate will select the persons to serve on the Election Board. 

6.  The Electoral Branch will employ professional staff for technology, audit, and administration.

B.  Scope of Federal and State Election Laws

1.  Nominations and Elections of the President and Senators and territorial offices will be held according to federal law.  Nominations and elections of state and local offices will adhere to the schedule defined herein.

2.  Federal law will define the scope and methods of a census that will take place in years ending in zero and will require persons to respond. 

3.  Only the data by location, age, and citizenship will be selected from the raw census and tallied to determine Senatorial and Representative Districts, which will be redefined for the first election following the census.

4.  Voting is a duty of citizenship.  Federal laws will encourage the maximum participation in the election process.

5.  Federal laws will define those citizens who are eligible to vote in all national and statewide elections, define multiple methods of voting; set the dates and times, by time zone, when voting places open and close and when election results can be released; and prohibit campaign and polling organizations from areas around voting places.

6.  Federal laws will define the persons and organizations that may contribute money and services to potential candidates and nominees for federal office, limits on the contributions, restrictions the use of contributions, and requirements that contributions be made public[3]. 

7.  Federal funds will pay for all political advertisements in media of all types on behalf of all nominees for federal office.  The nominees will supply the content of the advertisements.

8.  Federal laws will define all procedures related to the Federal Nominating Convention.

9.  State laws may augment but not contradict federal laws that govern the roles of the media, polling, and money in the nomination and election of state and local officers. 

10.  Federal laws will set standards whereby state and local governments will administer voter registration, polling places, absentee voting, and vote tabulations.

C.  Role of the Election Board

1.  The Election Board will execute election laws without partisan favoritism for actual or potential candidates or political organizations.

2.  Employing professional staff, the Election Board will

1. Interpret, implement, and enforce all federal laws and regulations pertaining to elections.
2. Oversee all procedures for the nomination and election of federal officials.
3. Review and judge the outcome of disputed nominations and elections.
4. In the case of a challenge, determine that a person has the basic qualifications as defined herein to serve in the federal office to which he or she has been nominated or elected.
5. Review the specifications for the computer programs that define Senatorial and Representative Districts.
6. Following each census, designate which sitting Senator and which sitting Representative belongs to which redefined district.
7. Refer violations of election laws to a grand jury.
8. Act as plaintiff in civil proceedings related to elections.

3.  At its first meeting of a new term, the new Election Board will select a chairman, review and approve the procedures of the Board, and announce the dates of next election: either the first or second weekend in April[4].

4.  The decisions of the Election Board may be appealed to the Electoral College for any reason, and the votes of 60% of the members of the Electoral College may reverse a decision of the Board.

5.  The decisions of the Election Board will be subject to judicial review only for allegations of corruption within the Electoral Branch.

6.  The Election Board will keep a journal of its proceedings and publish same on a timely basis.  Members of the Board will not answer in any other place over any matter recorded therein.