Persuasive Essay On The 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

In the past 200 years, many aspects of our society and those of the world have changed, ranging from social morals and ethics to technology. Through the great leaps and bounds technology has made, transferring information has gone from something that could have taken weeks to virtually an effortless and instantaneous norm of everyday life. This ease of information exchange has caused many things to change, be it the growing popularity of the Internet and e-mail or the ridiculous amount of television channels ever ready to inform the average citizen of the happenings around the community, state, country, and world. With so many changes taking place, one would think that all things of importance would

Most Americans would be surprised to find out that when they go vote for the President of the United States that they are not voting directly for the President, they are instead voting for the people that in turn vote for President. A recent survey conducted by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute found that only 65.88% of people knew anything about the way the commander and chief is elected. Even more staggering though is that only 57.31% of elected officials within the United States government knew the way the President is elected (Additional). America elects its President is through a complex process of state electors that vote on behalf of their constituents. This process is called the Electoral College, and it is written directly into the United States Constitution. The Electoral College is a system unique to America, so most reform options won’t be accepted by the American people or won't represent the the opinions of the majority of Americans if this system is changed.

I believe that we don't need the Electoral College for multiple reasons. One of the reasons have to do with technology and another reason has to do with power. There are more reasons as well. While I believe that we don't need the Electoral College, if we go with the popular vote then we could run into issues like the candidates won't actually get more than half of America's vote.

In order to fully understand the underlying problems of the Electoral College we have to look back at the time that the idea of the Electoral College itself was proposed and see how the culture of the time and the ideologies of the people involved helped shaped the final outcome. Life today is much different than it was two hundred odd something years ago, and it’s fair to say that the political ideals and social norms around our society have changed drastically.

As of late the Electoral College has been looked down upon for their decisions in the 2016 election and many have considered doing away with it. If this were to happen, the popular vote would be the direct vote. Nonetheless, by giving the popular vote the most authority, it would be like giving a monkey a loaded gun: they wouldn't know how to use it and it can lead to many more minor problems that can easily be avoided with the help of the Electoral College. Giving the Electoral College too little or too much power would lead to unwanted disagreements. The Electoral College is best the way it is in view of the fact that the winner-takes-all distribution of votes, changes the victors small percentage margin to seem much larger, so it makes the candidate’s win more certain and legit (usnews.com).

A number of Americans fail to realize that when they vote they are not voting for the president and vice-president directly, but for electors who then cast their ballots in the Electoral College. Until the recent battle between Gov. George W. Bush and Vice-president Al Gore for the presidency, this new generation of American voters has never witnessed a controversial election. Historically, there have been problematic elections allowing voters to question this system. The Electoral College is now a process open to criticism and debate, specifically because many do not understand its origin or purpose today. On November 7, 2000, Election Day, I was excited to become an official voter.

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

Every four years, on the Tuesday following the first Monday of November, millions of U.S. citizens go to local voting booths to elect, among other officials, the next president and vice president of their country. Their votes will be recorded and counted, and winners will be declared. But the results of the popular vote are not guaranteed to stand because the Electoral College has not cast its vote.

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.

Electoral College The most important time of the year in the USA is when all the citizens gather together and cast a vote for their elect president. During this process most people would say this when Americans really show out for their democracy. Many times we have seen the electoral college not work in favor of the people.. Or maybe it does.

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.

Imagine for a moment that a young man has been working hard all day on his own farm. He is the typical hard-working, middle-class American, not unlike Americans today. Normally this young man puts in a good twelve hours worth of work, but on this particularly special day, he relieves himself early. It is Election Day. He considers himself patriotic and takes this day very seriously. He casts his vote and comes home just in time to tuck his son into bed. He sleeps soundly through the night, knowing that he has helped to shape the country he loves so dearly. The next day, he learns that the man he voted for is not his new Commander in Chief. This man is not typically a sore loser, but in this

It seems that teenagers between the age of sixteen and seventeen have come to the sense of what is happening around them in the political world of there own country. Yet many people will encourage us teenagers to set our voice out there in the world in order for it to be heard, but it doesn’t really make a difference if that person isn’t the one voting. It is truly difficult when you have another person voting for your future when all you can do is let your voice be heard, but not an actual action. Voting has been around for so long, but it wasn’t only until then that the age of requirement was changed. Yet every year teenagers between the ages of sixteen and seventeen are already introduced or have an idea of the voting situations happening

The 2016 President of the United States was decided by 538 people. Should such an important, life changing, event be made by such a low number of people? The Electoral College, as defined in our textbook “A group of persons, called electors, who are selected by the voters in each state. This group officially elects the president and the vice president of the United States.”(p.247) The electoral college holds all the power for who the president of the United States will be, a group that currently has 538 member of which 270 are all that have to agree on who will lead us. The Electoral College needs to be modified because that is far more power than such a small group of people should have.