The Director is the Chief Executive Officer of the Electoral Trust and is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Trust and the implementation of its policies and regulations. The Act empowers the Director to enter into contracts, hire staff, acquire facilities, and take such additional actions, as he or she deems necessary to fulfill the responsibilities of the position.

The position of Director will clearly be of critical importance to the success of the Electoral Trust and ultimately to the success of establishing a Legislature of the People. Members of the Interim Board may not be familiar with the concepts embodied in the Democracy Amendment and the Democracy Act, and many may even be opposed to the dilution of their governmental powers that will occur under the Legislature of the People. Therefore it will be essential that the first Director be a person who has a comprehensive understanding and appreciation of the vision embodied in the Democracy Amendment and the Democracy Act and whose fundamental mission is to empower the People by making them lawmakers.

To address this requirement, the Democracy Amendment assigns the authority to appoint the first Director of the Electoral Trust to the Board of Directors of Philadelphia II, the nonprofit corporation conducting, on behalf of the People, the national election for the enactment of the National Initiative for Democracy.

One of the principal responsibilities of the first Director will be to conduct the election to replace the Interim Board with the first Board of Trustees elected by the People.

If the position of Director is vacated prior to the completion of a full six-year term, a person who receives a majority vote of the total membership of the Board of Trustees will fill the position. The Board of Trustees will establish procedures for identifying and considering candidates to fill any such vacancy in a timely manner.

Because of the unique nature of the position, it should be incumbent on each Director, working with Board members, to carefully describe the position and the desirable attributes to be expected in those who will assume the position; then begin identifying potential replacements for the Director early in each Director's term in office.