Abolishing The Electoral College

The Electoral College: a system that the U.S. has used over the years to choose representatives and is a compromise between election by a vote. The Electoral College should not be abolished for three reasons. These reasons are: The system helps candidates who struggle with winning the Popular Vote; with Electoral Votes, it gives the little states enough power and votes, and if we abolish The Electoral College, we weaken the Political Two-Party-System. And if not weakened, then destroyed. These reasons will show that the Electoral College should not be abolished, and should be kept.

Your vote should mainly matter! Yes, the electoral college should be abolished. The delegates did not believe the president should be chosen by a direct population vote (of the people). They didn’t trust voters would have enough information to make a good choice. The Electoral College is where the president and vice president are chosen indirectly. This system is where all states and the District of Columbia get one electoral vote for each of their US senators and representatives. Also, each state has a slate of electors for each presidential candidate. Another way this system works is by winner-take all method. The winner-take all method is where whichever candidate wins the most votes in the state, wins the state electoral votes. Lastly a candidate must receive a majority (one more than a half) of the electoral votes to be declared president. That is how everything goes in the electoral college. The electoral college should be abolished because 12 states and D.C. total have double the amount of electoral votes but less people than Illinois. Also, the winner of the 1876 presidential election isn’t what people wanted, it was based on the number of electoral votes. Another reason the electoral college should be abolished is that the states with the same representatives dont have the same number of voters. All these issues that continue to happen, need to be resolved by getting rid of this system.

The twelfth amendment that created the electoral college, was passed by congress in 1803, and has been instilled since. For the next presidential election, I believe the current situation should continue to be instilled. It has been in place now for over 200 years. It has been working for these past 200 years without major issues which is why I believe it could continue for another 200 years. I don’t think completely abolishing the electoral college is a good idea since it would make the people of the U.S completely in control. I also don’t believe amending the twelfth amendment is necessary. The current system we have in place for the electoral college should continue since it prevents the people from electing an unfit president. I am aware of the fact that in the year 2016, most people have some sort of education,

The electoral college should be abolished because candidates can win with very minimal popular vote, electoral college votes are not evenly distributed throughout the states, and many states are ignored by the candidates.

A very controversial topic is whether the electoral college of the United States of America should be dissolved. The recent 2016 presidential election has intensified the debate. The electoral college is an old system that was created out of a fear of the country being subject to mob rule. The founding fathers were wrong. America is not a true democracy if the electoral college still exists. It should be removed because it makes the voices of citizens meaningless.

"The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism, method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the candidate who receives the most popular votes the winner" (Posner Richard 15). The electoral college is not fair for the people of our fine country. The residents of the United States of America live in a democratic country where they have the right to elect their leader, the electoral college prevents that. I believe that the electoral college should be disbanded because it goes against the people's democracy.

Finally, the Electoral College plays an important role in the democratic process and should remain as the method used to elect the president. It provides a higher level of certainty in the presidential election results, ensures that the president is elected by a wide range of citizens and the president is decided by informed voters. The Electoral College is a part of American History and to remove this important process would be disrespectful to the Founding Fathers and the

I believe that we should abolish the Electoral College, because it is an outdated and unfair method of voting for new Politicians. Firstly, if the Electoral College remains existent, we would be voting not for a politician, but for a slate of representatives who cast a vote for a candidate on behalf of us. These senators may be biased when they choose, therefore, it may be theoretically possible the popular vote winner may lose the presidency. Secondly, there is a higher chance of a “tie” (both candidates receive the same amounts of votes), which means it would be sent to the House of Representatives. In there, each state casts no more than a single vote, therefore, one vote from a certain state could equal 55 votes from another, once again

“The Constitution’s framers chose a unique and complex method of selecting the president, one that clearly violates fundamental tenets of political equality and majority rule” (Edwards, 78). There were concerns that information could not travel across state lines. There was a concern that States would put forward their candidates above a national candidate and put regional interests ahead of national ones. There was also a concern that smaller states would be overshadowed and overwhelmed by states with larger populations. Although the country only had a population of 4 million when the framers first decided to outline the electoral system it would be a daunting task to implement a system of popular vote. “Aside from modest statutory changes, the Electoral College has not been structurally changed by Constitutional amendment since 1804” (Miller, 61). The times have changed and now democracy is possible. It makes no sense to have a country which is constantly growing and evolving be stuck so thoroughly in the past. There is a national education system that creates informed voters. With all the various forms of media information can be easily disseminated quickly across the entire nation. The nation can and will come together if given an opportunity.

if 700 people have pursued the idea of changing the electoral college and none of them gained enough backing to actually get their proposal passed then this must mean their is no improved way of electing the president. Those who argue the electoral college should be abolished mostly prefer to have the presidential election be determined by popular vote, this idea is pure inane. Imagine the election went by popular vote, the entire presidential election would really be a media war. It would be about which candidate can get better advertising and how bad they can make the other candidates look. There is still so many people these days that don’t do their research, don’t listen to presidential debates, and don’t read about the election and vote based off what they see on what they see on twitter or articles online that are

The electoral college was, when conceived, a good idea. At the time, people didn’t have too many sources of information on the presidential elections. Times have changed. In the United States, the majority of people have access to the internet and if they don’t, they can go to public libraries or read the newspaper. So why do we still use this outdated system? Why should a select few decide what the majority wants?

Everyone has their own opinion on the United States’ way of election and its electoral college. The Electoral College is the process that the founding fathers established in the Constitution to elect the President. It is a compromise between the election of the President by a vote in Congress and the election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. This election process is made up of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where they vote for President and Vice President, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress. This Electoral College has caused conflict between the U.S. government and its citizens in the past, and it should be abolished by the United States (“What is the Electoral College?” n.d.).

As Abraham Lincoln once said, "Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth". With this is mind, I propose that the Electoral College should be removed and replaced with a popular vote system. Although some people defend the Electoral College because it has worked, generally, for hundreds of years, it is anachronistic, further promotes partisanship, and is essentially unjust.

Imagine a world where the United States people do not vote, or have a say in their President, this may be the case in the future. The Electoral College has been part of the United States voting system for the President and Vice President for over two-hundred years, and it is still going on today without much changes to it. In brief, the electoral college are who the people vote for to vote for the President and Vice President. Although the electoral college has been around so long, some feel that it is wrong for the United States, and that it needs to be changed for the betterment of the voting system in America. The electoral college should be changed or gotten rid of in favor of the people's vote to elect a new President and Vice President, because of its out-of-date principles and the many other flaws to it. In order to determine why the electoral college should be changed, people need to know the history of it, how the electoral college operates, and more reasons as to why the electoral college is hurting our nation and how it could be fixed.

The United States as we see it now, was founded with the purpose of giving everyone equality of representation in the government. Today, the system that the Electoral College uses, “creates a great deal of inequity that betrays American values of majority rule, equality before the law, and representative government” (Bolinger). The population of the United States is not represented as they should in a presidential election. The Electoral College should be abolished to create an equal representation of every individual in the population of the country for a better presidential election.