The Electoral and Campaign System

The Electoral College was created in 1787 during the Constitutional Convention. It was one of several proposed possible ways to determine the president, including by popular vote, having state legislatures decide, having senators decide, having governors decide, and having a special committee for senators decide. Ultimately, the Founding Fathers chose the Electoral College because it incorporated the people in the decision of the presidency and because it allowed small states to have greater representation

who hold Electoral votes. Electoral votes are the votes that decide victory of candidate in election. This Electoral College System has limited democracy to people in major three ways. Electoral college holds an ability to alter result of Election over popular votes, discriminates candidates to campaign in certain states not others, and creates high voter turnouts. Since Electoral system can change outcome of the election, it often misrepresent the will of citizens. In electoral system, candidate

nation.The winner takes all system in the electoral college, campaign finance and voter ID laws all represent limitations to our voices. The electoral college is a group that we vote to vote for our president. Each state gets a minimum of 3 electoral votes. Some states that have a bigger population get more electoral votes. All of the state has the same system of winner takes all except for Maine and Nebraska, they have a different system which divides the electoral votes between the presidential

The Electoral College Debate As important as the popular vote may seem, it is the Electoral College vote that decides presidential elections. The framers of the Constitution devised the Electoral College system because they did not trust voters who were spread out over 13 states to choose the head of the executive branch. Instead, they gave that responsibility to a group of electors who might better know who was best suited for that job. At first, each state legislature chose its own electors. In

of the Electoral College. Instead of directly voting for the U.S. president, the american people vote for a number of electors, who then cast their votes for a presidential candidate. The Electoral College is a complex system that is often misinterpreted because of the fact that citizens do not directly vote for president. The system of using the Electoral College to elect our president should be abolished because small states make little impact on elections, promotes the two-party system, and it

the LDP’s ascension to power gave rise to the “1955 system,” where monetary support from big businesses to LDP factions and pork-barrel spending cemented the LDP as the popular vote in Japanese politics. Yet, while their system worked for 38 years, the LDP’s corruption scandals and the recession of the 1990s caused the LDP to lose favorability among voters. The ongoing corruption scandals, along with the defection

Every four years, in the United States, a president is either elected or re-elected. The process, called the Electoral College, is unique to America and is widely debated. According to Amendment XII of the United States Constitution, state electors, which combined are the Electoral College, vote on who should be president and vice president. If a candidate receives a majority of the vote, they will hold that office. The number of electors a specific state receives is the sum of the number of

America, I would change the Electoral College system. Like many other Americans, I feel that the Electoral College system is not effective. It caries a notion of the state versus the people, electors oversee a large part of the country and is change the answer to this issue? I believe that times have changed and we need to reform the electoral system all while not changing the constitution. The Constitution of the United States of America created a system called the Electoral College where it outlines

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

A debate has been brewing in recent years concerning the way we elect our president. The first system is the Electoral College, which is complicated. Americans are not knowledgeable about it and worry that one candidate can win the popular vote and not the Electoral College. The opponents of the Electoral College propose a new plan called the National Popular Vote (NPV). The pro-Electoral College party contemplates the bill’s risks and costs are not worth the possibility of gains for certain states