Persuasive Electoral College

Despite the Electoral College system being founded by the founding fathers in America and being there as long as the Constitution exists, many people still do not have sufficient knowledge on how it works. The Electoral College does not provide honest presidential elections rather it has the potential to undo the will of people at any point from the selection of electors to the vote tallying in Congress (Shaw, 3). Electoral College in the United States has played a major role in depressing the voter's turnout. Every State is given an equal number of electoral votes despite the population and in turn, the system has put in place no measure to encourage the voters to take part in the elections. Besides, the system distorts

The Electoral College is an excuse of the electoral process, proving itself to be undemocratic, false in representation, and harmful to third-parties. Therefore, the Electoral College should be abolished, and the process should rely on the popular vote to have the leading judgement in the election procedure for a new president. The Electoral College has proven that a candidate may not need to win the popular vote of the people of the nation in order to win the presidential election. But first, beforehand, let me introduce the system in which the Electoral Process is based upon. The Electoral Process is the government’s created system of indirect voting in order to elect the nation’s president.

When Americans vote for president, they are actually voting for presidential electors, who are known as a whole to be the electoral college. These electors, who are elected by citizens of the United States, are the ones that elect the chief executive. The electoral college has shaped the past, present, and future of the United States ever since it was constructed by the Constitutional Convention of 1787. The electoral college was created with fair and good intentions.

Electing government officials is a major part of being an American. The citizens of the United States have the privilege of voting for their officials , representing America’s democracy. Although a big misconception on this is that the people actually do not vote directly for who becomes elected president but rather who gets to elect the next president. The Electoral College has been in place since 1804 and continues to be the system the United States uses to elect the president. The Electoral College is filled with history, a lengthy process , and questionable arguments on its validity.

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.

As citizens of the United State of America, one of our most important rights is that of which to vote. By voting, the general population has a say in who its leaders are. Votes for local, state, and even federal representatives directly reflect who the constituents want in office. However, America’s highest office is not elected by a vote of the people. Instead we use a confusing and outdated system called the Electoral College. Our president is not elected by the people, but by 538 electors who can legally vote for whomever they choose. Several times in our nations history an elector has voted against the people’s will. Three presidents have been elected into office by the electoral college and

In the “Point: Abolishing the Electoral College,” Benjamin Bolinger, a licensed lawyer who can practice law in Colorado and Pennsylvania, argues that the Electoral College needs to be abolished for the American democracy. Bolinger examines that some states with a little population have large number of electoral college compare to those states with larger populations. He believes that the Electoral College damages the value of democratic government by leaving

The Electoral College is an institution that has existed for since the early 1800s, but the purpose of the Electoral College remains a mystery to many people. In a country where the president is supposed to be elected by and for the people, why is there an institution that controls where all the votes from a state go? The Electoral College should be abandoned because its system of voting does not represent the people, the electors could easily vote for whomever they want, and because the Electoral College gives more power to some states than other. When a citizen votes, he wants his vote to count; this is a right guaranteed to him and all other citizens by the constitution. However, if he votes for a candidate who receives only 49% of the vote while another candidate receives 51% of the vote, all of his state’s electoral votes will go to the other candidate, with the exception of two states.

First, The Electoral College prevents majority rule and should not be abolished. ”The Electoral College gives states with small populations a measure of protection against domination by states with large populations. It levels the political playing field a bit” (Williams, Walter E.). It is said that Hillary Clinton won popular vote majority. Therefore, if the nation were not encumbered with outdated electoral college. Clinton, instead of our present one, would be the next president of the United States. In 2000, Al Gore won the popular vote just as Clinton supposedly did. Such outcomes have led to calls to desert the Constitution's Article two provisions for the state electors to select presidents. Before the U.S. deserts the Electoral College, let's consider the purpose it performs. According to 2013 Census Data, Nine states- California, Texas, New York, Florida, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Georgia, and Michigan have populations

The United States, well known for its democracy, holds elections every four years to elect its President. Every American citizen over the age of 18 has a right to cast a vote in the presidential election. The voting process, although it seems easy and straightforward, can be very complicated. In the 2000 election, Al Gore captured the majority of votes, but George Bush won. The reason for this strange outcome and why Al Gore lost was because of the Electoral College. The Electoral College is voting system where different states are given a certain amount of votes in the election, and which ever candidate wins a state, is given that state’s votes. The Electoral College is out of date, and should be replaced by the Popular Vote system,

It is time for a change in how the US presidential candidates get chosen. The electoral college needs to be taken away in the US because it is no longer needed. The popular vote needs to be the primary way the presidential candidates get chosen because the individual voters can decide for themselves on who they want to be president. Individual voters are also well-informed or can get informed on the candidates from the news, the internet, and also by making their own opinions about who the candidates are. The electoral college takes away from this because it doesn’t let the popular vote get to choose who wins the presidential campaign. Presidential candidates mostly campaign to states that can easily swing to voting for a republican or democratic, and can they count on winning the totally democratic or republican state.

Along with the “winner takes all” rule, the electoral should be abolished when deciding the president of the United States because of the chance that the president can win the election without the support of the majority of voters.

The process of voting today involves voting for an Elector from the electoral college to vote for the president. So in a simpler way you're voting for someone who is going to vote for you. Although legally they do not have to vote for who you want but it rarely happens but is still possible. In an article by Fiarvote.org it stated “Since the founding of the Electoral College,

Our country runs with freedom and democracy. Other countries are not as fortunate as us to have this right as a citizen. Some people in our country take our freedom for granite to exercise that right. In Article II, Section I of the United States Constitution, relates with the topic of the Electoral College. Today, some are very overwhelmed what the Electoral College has brought to our nation. Some people believe that this section of the Constitution should be abolished. However, the reasoning for having this is because the founding fathers did not trust the people. They thought we were all uninformed of our domestic policies as a nation. Consequently, this deems to be universal over Two-Hundred years later. Abolishing the Electoral College

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.