Pros And Cons Of Abolishing The Electoral College

I believe that we should completely abolish the Electoral College. I don't believe that it doesn't meet the standards in todays society. There are a lot of issues within the Electoral College. For example, sometimes the electors go against the favorable candidate that the voters want. The most recent example occurred in 2000 when Al Gore won the popular vote, but George W. Bush earned more electoral votes, giving him the presidency. Electoral College was great when our founding fathers created it, but times have changed. In my opinion, the Electoral College should not be in today's society.

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: 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 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.

The Electoral College has been in place for hundreds of years and it has sparked the debate of if it should be abolished from presidential elections. I believe that the Electoral College should be abolished because it gives unfair treatment to low populated states, it gives Congress more power in the election, and causes unfair election results. Document A shows that California and Texas have the most electoral votes with fifty five and thirty eight respectively but lower populated states such as Delaware and Alaska have only three electoral votes. If you split the map of the United States into four sections using horizontal and vertical lines, one can draw the conclusion that candidates running for president do not have to go to certain sections of the United States due to their low electoral votes and

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.

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 electoral college is the system constructed to select the president of the U.S. The founding fathers established this process as a compromise between the popular vote and the states. Electoral College consists of 538 electors (Eric). The majority of 270 out of the 538 electoral votes are required for the running candidate to win the presidency (History staff). As dictated by the 23rd Amendment (National archive), the District of Columbia has 3 votes and California with 55 votes has the most between the states, each state has at least 3 votes no matter what the population is. One of the issues seen in the electoral college is the fact that the candidate with the popular vote does not always win the presidency (Eric). For example, in 2016

Thesis: The Electoral College is unfair and should be abolished because of the “winner takes all rule,” the chance that a president cannot have the support of the majority of the voters, and candidates would campaign equally in every state.

However the system can be so deranged that some small states are given up to 3 times as many electors as they should get if they were handed out proportionate to their population (jdallicorn51). In today 's politically charged climate, many questions have been raised about the viability and sustainability of such an archaic system. The electoral college should be abolished in the United States because it causes unnecessary confusion, reduces the value of a vote, and the existence of it is inherently against the principles of democracy our country was founded upon.

The abolishment of the electoral college has been a highly debated political topic since it was first established by our founding fathers. The Electoral College is a voting system that was put in place by the founding fathers back in 1787. When voters casts their ballots, they are actually voting for the presidential electors. Each state is guaranteed at least 3 electoral votes. The number of electors a state has is equivalent to the number of representatives they have plus the 2 seats in Senate.In total there are 538 electoral votes; including the 3 from D.C. electors. However the Presidential candidates need at least 270 votes to win the election. However, this electoral system has created quite an uproar among people since the last election. The electoral college has limited democracy to people in three major ways: by having the ability to alter results of the election over the popular vote, discriminating candidates to campaign in certain states, and subsidize the decline in voter turnout.

The Electoral College is a controversial voting system that has been part of the United States election process since it’s very beginning. Created during the constitutional convention of 1787, the Electoral College was intended to increase the voting power of states with a low population. A solely popular vote was thought to ignore the minority of smaller states (Jost and Giroux). In response, the electoral college would involve a group of elected state representatives that would decrease the influence of populous states over smaller states. This system is still implemented today and continues to hold similar workings to that of the past. The number of electors granted to each state is the sum of senators and House representatives for that state (Jost and Giroux). Only senators, representatives, and anyone holding an office of trust or profit are prohibited from becoming electors. On election day, US citizens vote for their Electoral College representatives, and those chosen become leading players in the presidential election. This system settled disputes between states in the past and has survived for over two centuries; however, some critics now find the system to be flawed and out of date (Jost & Giroux).

Fellow senators, the electoral college should be eliminated as the primary method of determining our president and Vice President for three key reasons. First, because the electoral college is an archaic method that does properly represent today's day and age. Second, because the electoral college gives too much power to swing states over the rest of the states and finally, because electoral college can clash with the popular vote which then leads to the wrong person being elected as president and Vice President.

If you think on Election Day, you voted for the next president of the United States, sorry to tell you but you were mislead like the millions of Americans whom had believed their votes would decide next president. The United States has a unique process in electing the next president. In order to win the white house, a national election must be held every four years. American citizens whom are registered to vote do not directly vote for their favored candidate, but vote for presidential electors, known as the electoral college, to vote for the candidate. In the election, each state has an assigned number of electoral votes which vary on the number of residing citizens, in the respective state. For example, Texas has thirty-eight electoral votes to Rhode Island’s four. The presidential candidate must gain, at least, two-hundred-and-seventy votes from an electoral college to win the election.