I affirm the resolution that the electoral college should be disbanded
Even though the electoral college is constitutional it’s outdated in today's time and and serves as no purpose ,One of the main reasons why it has no purpose of being used is the fact that we have faster ways of receiving results such as the media and internet that allows us to easily vote without the long wait which was the primary reason for its start.
The democratic values that our country was born on are not satisfied in our current election system because our vote does not go towards the election of a new president it is taken as a suggestion for whom the state should represent that can be different from the majority vote
In the case of a tie between candidates
There are advocates for the continuation of the Electoral College; however, there are also advocates for the subversion of the system. Many feel that the Electoral College turns away people from voting. Democrats in dominantly conservative states such as Texas or Alabama may feel that there is no point for them to vote. Republicans in dominantly liberal
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America has been acknowledged as being one of the world’s leading democracies, but to continue implementing the use of the Electoral College creates some distortion to that title. The out of date system does not accurately portray democracy. Theoretically, a democracy is government system that is ruled by the people. In reality, an individual’s vote may not matter depending on the state they reside in. Robert Dahl, a Democratic Theorist stated, “every member must have an equal and effective opportunity to vote, and all votes must be counted as equal.” Political equality is important to the distribution of power. Even if a person is wealthy and of power their vote should be counted the same as someone in poverty.
The Electoral College is currently the system the United States employs to elect our president. However, the Electoral College should be abolished due to the fact that it can go against the choices of the majority of people, it brings too much attention to swing states and states with large populations, and it annihilates political equality. First of all, the Electoral College goes against the will of several citizens. There have been five instances (including the 2016 elections) in which the candidate who won the popular vote did not become the president. According to Doc.
One of the greatest accomplishments in the history of the United States was the creation of the Constitution. It was created by the Framers who included many important and specific rules to make sure that the government would be able to sustain itself. The Idea of the Electoral College was first introduced in this constitution as a way to make sure that there was a buffer between the population and the selection of a President. They did not want a dictatorship to arise due to a manipulative candidate. In recent history, the Electoral College has been a very controversial topic. Many people do not agree with it and believe that it should be abolished due to varying factors such as the unequal distribution of votes per state. When the Framers first created the Electoral College, I believe that there hopes of what it would become have not been met and that they would not be pleased with it in today's government.
I agree with Hayes, the electoral college is outdated. There is no longer a necessary role for it in the American Electoral System. The Electoral College was created since the government felt that the people would not know about the issues that they were voting on. Instead, they decided that the people would vote for a select group of candidates. The group of people that are being voted for are the caucus.The caucus member that wins their district casts their districts vote in favor of the candidate that won the majority vote .
The electoral college system is unnecessary at this point in time. When the electoral college system was thought up in the 1700s by the framers of the constitution, they believed that electors to represent the peoples’ vote would be more efficient since it was extremely difficult to get information to and from places quickly, meaning that citizens would be late on news. To to combat that, the framers created the electoral college system, a system where electors elected by a political party would represent the peoples’ vote, gather in Washington, and vote on their behalf. Because of the lack of technology, this method wasn’t a bad way to vote for presidents efficiently. But technology improved, negating the problem of Americans not knowing the news in Washington and concerning their candidates. Today, Americans have access to current and reliable news regarding their candidates and are generally up-to-date with politics. So with the technological advances present today, why do we still employ an electoral college to vote for our next president? There isn’t a pressing reason to keep it.
The electoral college should be abolished. The electoral college should be discontinued because “not all votes are created equal or even count at all.” The electoral college consists of the 538 votes that determine who the President of the United Sates will be. The 538 votes consist of the Senators of each state and the Representatives. When you vote for who should be elected it tells the Senators for each state who they should vote for.
Back in the 1700s, there was at least some point to the usage of the Electoral College. At the Constitutional Convention in 1787, it was said that the Founding Fathers decided to base the votes off of each state’s population, but the issue about this is that a small amount of states would give three votes to the Electoral College (Yetter), which would explain why they made votes more worthy in smaller states than larger states. This is something that was causing the decline of the need for the Electoral College. What has happened to the Electoral College in the 1700s was not even relevant to what is happening to it right now in our society; therefore the Electoral College is not as useful as it was before and should be abolished in favor of the popular
The other reason why Electoral College can’t best represent the people is because only majority of the state's votes count, but the rest are not important or used. This is very important because the smaller states do not really get a say in government while the larger states are in control. Although most people’s vote count toward the state's votes same do not. I think it’s a big problem that not everyone is getting represented and that needs to change. Everyone should have an equal say in who they want to be president and the Electoral College System needs to change for the better of the
The electoral college is a system that was put in place by the framers of the constitution for many reasons. The main reason the electoral college is that the framers did not fully trust democracy for they believed that people were not educated enough to vote. After reading an article from Business Insider called The Electoral College Is Brilliant, And We Would Be Insane To Abolish It by Walter Hickey, I agree that the electoral college is necessary for our presidential elections. According to the article the electoral college is good because it keeps errors local, is a testament to a candidate's desire to win, and most importantly, forces majority. In the article opposing the Electoral College I found many of the arguments to be invalid or full of what ifs or buts, and that is why I do not have any reason to believe the electoral college is good.
“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.
The electoral college is an outdated rigid system of voting for president made by the founding fathers of America. In 1787 the constitutional convention approved the federal Electoral College System based on the lack of education of the colonial people on politics. Times have changed and people are more familiar with the political system. Presidential candidates promote their campaigns through social media, television and news articles which allows people to gain knowledge of the candidates and their presidential duties, themselves instead of relying on elected officials to make the decision for them. The electoral college should be abolished for reasons of it inhumanly disenfranchising the people of America, unconstitutionally defying: the
When the Electoral College was put in place as part of the voting process it seemed a good idea. “Our framers distrusted democracy and saw the Electoral College as a deliberative body able to correct bad choices made by the people.” (Anderson 519). Times have changed and today’s society is a lot different that it was when George Washington was President. It’s about time that the U.S eliminates the Electoral College and makes America more of a democracy by making the popular vote the deciding factor in electing the president.
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