Random Governor for President

Elections are an exercise in lying. To win, you need to get the majority of the voters, and the majority prefer liars. If you reform (change) the election and change who chooses our president, you simply change who you need to lie to. I propose selecting a random governor as president. On paper, they are the candidates with appropriate experience. They also tend to represent a wider range of the population than the nominees of the two political parties. We could do worse.

Ground Rules

Congress will randomly select a list of multiple governors as candidates. Each state will be weighted by population. Congress and the president would take turns removing their least favorite governor until the last remaining governor would be elected president: one vote per representative, one vote per senator, the mayor of Washington DC would get three votes, and any tie would be broken by the vice president. If the president or congress stalled more than a week, the losing governor would be be selected by the supreme court by lot.

Congress is authorized to change the system to a randomly selected one hundred member electoral college, through an act of law