Pros And Cons Of Abolishing The Electoral College

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.

If the electoral college was abolished, then America would have a more pure vote. The electoral college delegates how much say a state has in government and limits some states while promoting the powers of others. The electoral college also has many deformities, including the winner take all system, a less pure vote, and a more concentrated support for a candidate from certain states that make it perfectly reasonable to abolish it.

The Electoral College was created in 1787 to protect this country’s voting system. It is a group of 538 members that directly cast the votes to determine who the next president will be. (Green) However, the issues of the present day can’t help but wonder, is the Electoral College’s system outdated and corrupt? My dialogue’s purpose is to defend the Electoral College and show how it still protects us to this day by using evidence from the most recent 2016 election, and prove that it gave us the best candidate suited for the role of the President of the United States.

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.

At the end of every president’s term, a new president is voted on by the citizens in the United States. Each state can cast a vote on a presidential candidate for each senator and representative that they have in Congress. Through this process a new president is picked every four to eight years. This process is called the electoral college. The process of electoral college has been established and has been continuing since the approval of the Constitution. Even a century later after being created, the electoral college is still used today. Born out of the Constitution, the Electoral College is still obsolete; it should be abolished. Regardless, eliminating the Electoral College will likely never happen because of political parties.

    One reason the Electoral College should be abolished is that if someone was to win the popular vote but, the other candidate won the Electoral vote then, they would most likely win the election.

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 should be abolished because it overpowers the people’s vote. As stated in the Document G in the presidential election in 1876, 1888, and 2000 the winner of the election didn’t actually win the popular vote. For example, in the presidential election in 1888, Hayes got 5,443,892 popular votes and 233 electoral votes. Tilden got 5, 534,488 electoral votes and 168 electoral votes. Given this evidence, the popular vote (the people’s votes) doesn’t actually count towards the actual election. The Electoral College is what actually decides the election. Therefore, if the majority of the people vote for a president, the president might not be chosen all because only the Electoral College votes count not the people’s. Furthermore, the population of Illinois was more than the population of the 12 states and the District of Columbia combined, yet Illinios only had 20 Electoral votes while those 12 states and the District of Columbia had 44 electoral votes, according to Document D. This proves that the Electoral College doesn’t make everyone’s vote equal. The votes of the people who live in the 12 states and

The Electoral College what can I say to be honest, I know nothing about the Electoral College, but I will do my best to explain it to people who might know and to help them know so when they 're seventeen they know like I should. So the Google definition of the Electoral College is a body of people representing the states of the US, who cast votes in the election of the President and Vice President. I would have not given that explanation, it would have told you it is a College. So helping you and myself, I will first explain how it works, then how Electors are selected, and the qualifications to be one and their restriction on who the Electors can vote for. Then the Election 1800 and the 12th Amendment. Then I will explain times where

The Electoral College should be abolished for many reasons. The amount of representatives that each state receives is one problem with the Electoral College. In terms of population, smaller states have a definite disadvantage. The video “Does Your Vote Count? The Electoral College

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.

YES! I do believe that the electoral college should be eliminated. I think that this should happen because it makes some peoples voes greater impacting than others which aren't fair. the electoral college is in a nutshell 538 votes that determine who wins the presidency. split evenly across the population about 309,000,000. Every 574,000 people would be represented by 1 electoral vote but the electoral college does give votes to people only states. which is unfair in many ways such as, Ohio with the population of 11.5 million it should get 20 votes but no the electoral college only gives them 18 the other 2 votes go to other states that should only deserve 1 or 2 but get 4. and several other states are missing votes that they should get.

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

The electoral college is a method for choosing the president. The system was created by the founding fathers to help choose the president in a time when many people were far less educated than people today. The electoral college is an outdated for selecting the president that needs to be abolished in favor of a popular vote from citizens.

We will first understand why the electoral college should be abolished because it causes unnecessary confusion in which a tie is possible between the candidates. A perfect example is the presidential election of 2000 where the candidate with 500,000 more popular votes, Al Gore, lost the election due to the electoral college. The reason being that one elector refused to vote for Gore and the suspicious voter count in Florida that would be considered voter fraud today. The country was in great uncertainty over the next few months after the election because many supporters of Al Gore rightly said that Al Gore should have won the presidency. Al Gore ended up with 266 electoral votes, George H.W. Bush with 271, and one elector who should have voted for Gore abstained from voting. This unnecessary confusion