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&#x27;t the case, there wouldn&#x27;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&#x27;d have a ballot this fall with 10 names on it, not 2.5.<p>Click to show the partisan requirements here and note the huge disparities with independents:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ballotpedia.org&#x2F;Ballot_access_for_presidential_candidates#Party_nomination_processes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ballotpedia.org&#x2F;Ballot_access_for_presidential_candi...</a><p>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.<p>edit: It&#x27;s quite likely that the president would be selected by the Electoral College, but personally I&#x27;d prefer that to the current process where the president is selected by the superior voter targeting strategy.