Electile Dysfunction: Two Ways to Fix It

Our system for electing the President of the United States of America could be called sloppy at best. Is there anyone here who truly understands how it works? The constitution sure doesn't.
The way I see it there are two courses of action we can take to simplify this procedure:

Scenario One

• The Democratic Party and the Republican Parties will form organized committees. They will rename themselves (for the sake of simplicity) the Blue Party and the Red Party respectively.
• The Blue Party and the Red Party will meet together and form a list of issues. Each side will be assigned either a YES or NO position.
• The comities will program a computer with their official response to each question. They will then dissolve until such time as they may need to be called upon to clarify any additional issue.
• To streamline the process, the media will be called upon to poll the people in each state. Based on their projections, each state will assigned a color. That color will correspond to that state's electoral vote.
• In the event neither color has a majority the outcome will be decided by celebrity endorsements
• All decisions normally reserved for the president will be answered by the computer. All positions will be filled by the computer randomly assigning people from its party committee.

Scenario Two

• The two party system will be dissolved
• Each candidate will be required run on their own merits and provide their own platform
• This will make it more difficult for the voters to know who to vote for, but it encourages individual decision making rather than mob rule. What the media does about this will be their problem.
• The electoral college will be dissolved
• This may reduce the power of some smaller states- but each voter will have the same amount of influence regardless of the state they live in. It will go against Plato's idea of the uneducated masses being unfit to make a decision.
• The primaries will serve as an elimination, narrowing down the candidates based on their viability. If a candidate finds out they do not have the support to win, they are encouraged to drop out at their own discretion.
• Once the final candidates have been decided they will be required to pick a running mate. Because their are no parties, that will not be an issue.