A Time For Change Again !

Many people argue that the Electoral College is an outdated system. After all, many things have changed in the last two centuries. For one, technology is much more advanced now than it was two hundred years ago. With the internet and television, we can now learn everything about a candidate regardless of where the come from in the nation. It is feasible to have direct election of a president because of these improved methods of communication and the evolution of technology in general.

Most Americans think the Electoral College is a nuanced and complex system designed to safeguard democracy. It seems that dividing electoral votes among states and awarding each state's electors to one of the primary candidates would be an effective system and one that would preserve our nation’s freedom. And so society blissfully forges on believing our current system of election is both impartial and up to date. But little do most American citizens know that they are lacking the knowledge and context to understand how malignant the Electoral College is. The Electoral College needs to be abolished because it ignores the popular vote and what most citizens want, it causes candidates to focus too much on swing states, and the old reasons for using are now irrelevant.

The voting process in America appears straightforward, but it is a very complex, complicated system. The Electoral College is America’s current voting system. The Electoral College still serves its intended purpose, but with increasing political activity among Americans it has caused a need to reform this process. Research suggests that the Electoral College system should be amended because it poorly illustrates democracy, is outdated and the majority of Americans are in favor of abolishing the system.

In 1787, the framers of the constitution assembled and decided how the new nation would elect its president. It took the framers little less than a month to accomplish this task. During that month they considered various methods ranging from direct election of the president, to selection by legislators, to selection by electors. Finally, they settled on selection by electors, most commonly known as Electoral College. There were various reasons why Electoral College ultimately won out. We will explore some of the reason later in this essay. I believe that the reasons which were legitimate at the time are no longer valid and the time has come for us to replace the Electoral College with a system

I believe the electoral college should be reformed because it favors the states with the most electoral which means that the individual votes don’t really count in this day and age we are very well informed and educated voters unlike the ones in the founding Father’s Day. The type of reform I support is the Direct Election with Instant Runoff Voting, my reason for this chose is because it would “save time and money while also ending the spoiler dynamic of the third party and independent candidates and consistently produce a majority nationwide

The main Idea of the matter, is that the people need a better system to which to elect the president. What I am seeking is that our congressmen change the system, to better fit the time that we live in now. Where so many civil moments have occurred to give us more rights and privileges than ever before. These are just some of the reasons why I believe that the electoral college is outdated and should be changed, or done away with completely.

This last election 2016 the electoral college made a big mistake in electing our current president. The electoral college started in 1804, this should be a time to change and think of a different idea to choose our president. The electoral college should be abolished because its undemocratic, hurts the third party, and small states are overrepresented.

The world of politics has changed since the framers created the electoral college and we need to eliminate this old system and bring it up to date. In a comprehensive study the Pew Research center found that in the 2016 election 80 percent of people thought a lot about the election and 85 percent are following news about the presidential candidates. People today are becoming more and more socially aware of politics and the vote of the people is what should be considered. The electoral college creates a chance that the loser can win the electoral vote and this creates problems like we seen in the 2016 election and even the 2000 election. This resulted in having many Americans questioning the purpose of the electoral college, having a “divided nation, and creating problems with candidates. Secondly, the system isn’t base on population. We have some big states and we have some really small states but those little states aren’t getting all the representation its deserves and even some of the bigger states because each state begins with three electors. For example, the states of Ohio has a population of 11.59 million (2014) so it should get about 20-22 electoral votes but it only has 18 because each state still has to have 3 votes so the votes go to other states. The electoral college can either underestimate or overestimate and this simply isn’t fair. To better support my stance on eliminating the electoral college some

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 Electoral College was created in created in 1787, though there has been lots of amendment done since then. It was created as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. I don’t agree with the opinion that Electoral College system should be changed, rather I believe that the Electoral College system should be amended and modified where the delegates should vote in according to what the majority of the population in the state and district to which they represent want, these would insure that presidential elections occur according to the democratic process, citizens should be well educated and informed when voting for representative for the

Do you believe the electoral college is the ideal method to vote for the next president of the united states? I do not agree with this method of choosing the president and I think the popular vote should be the method of voting instead. In the Electoral College you vote for someone to vote the president for you which defeats the purpose of voting. Especially since that person legally doesn't have to vote for who you want. Also the electoral college makes voting more complicated which differs from the popular vote method which is easier by just counting votes and the winner would be who has the most votes. My last reason for abolishing the Electoral College and using the popular vote method is it would help other parties instead of just the Republican and Democratic parties. As third party candidates never won due to the electoral college being more helpful to the other parties.The electoral college is a complicated and not fair way of voting for the president. The process defeats the purpose of voting and most of the time helps only two parties which give the other parties a very low chance of winning.

The Electoral College Voting System is outdated and deeply flawed. First, it was created as a temporary solution to citizens not being educated enough vote, which doesn’t apply to the views many have today. Second, There is danger of having a tied vote, which would make it almost impossible for us to know who to vote for.. Third, many people today already want abolish it, which shows that the majority wants a change. If we want to make a change about what’s going on, we have to do something about. We can’t continue to be silenced by the opinions of others. As Dr. Seuss said, “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”

The current process of electing the President of the United States through the Electoral College system should not be changed because the Electoral College system is superior in comparison to other comprehensive voting systems. Systems like direct popular vote or the national popular vote may work in democracies; however the United States is a federal republic. While allowing large metropolises and large states to be represented in a manner consistent with their size, the Electoral College has the exceptional attribute of allowing small states and rural areas to still maintain influence in the government. Allowing the entire nation to decide the direction of our government ensures candidates appeal to the majority of the nation, not just a

Throughout the years, whenever a policy has seemed outdated or irrelevant in US policy, it has generally been gotten rid of. Slavery, prohibition, and discriminate voting laws were all done away with once people realized that they did not belong in the modern world, but there is still one piece of US policy that has long overstayed its welcome. This piece of policy is the use of the electoral college in our presidential election system. The electoral college is a group of individuals who each cast a direct vote for the president. The way that this works is complicated but essentially it boils down to this. Each state has a number of electoral college votes equal to the number of seats they have in the senate plus the number of seats they have in the House of Representatives for a total of 538 votes. Before each election, each party picks a group of people who they tell to vote for their candidate from each state to be their electors. When a citizen votes for president in November of election years, they are not voting for the president directly. They are voting for which party gets to send its group of electors to cast their vote in the electoral college. These electors then cast their votes in early December, and from those votes a winner is declared. Does it seem convoluted and overly-complicated? That is what I think. So, I say that the electoral college should be abolished because it causes problems in presidential elections, the arguments for the electoral college are

Despite the traditional method of holding two voting "elections," the popular vote and the electoral college, I believe that the latter should be abolished. The reasons for doing so consist of how it distorts the campaign in which candidates may simply persuade states they know they they will win, how it functions as a "winner take all" campaign and also how flawed the procedure is if a tie occurs, where it is given to the House of Representatives as a one house, one vote basis.