The Faulty Nature of the United States Electoral College

In June of 1804 the states had ratified the Twelfth Amendment which enacted the Electoral College in time for the 1804 election. When election time comes, Americans vote for the President and Vice President who are chosen by Presidential electors, who as a whole are known as the Electoral College. As a decision was needed for a method of choosing candidates, the Constitutional Convention of 1787 contemplated many different ways of electing the President, but toward the end of the proposals and ideas the matter had to be taken to the Committee of Eleven on Postponed Matters which is the committee who conceived the original Electoral College. In recent years, much debate has been stirring regarding whether or not the Electoral College has a place within this country's elections. For many states this method of tallying and casting votes is great because every state receives a minimum of three electoral votes considering each state has two senators and at least one representative (Lewis). However, these minimum electoral votes make the distribution of electoral college votes uneven throughout the fifty states, making each American citizen's vote count less or much more which is cause for change. If the information on these weighted votes is analyzed it can be concluded that states with a population similar to Wyoming has one “elector” for every 177, 556 persons while Texas has one “elector” for every 715,499 persons. While the Electoral College has worked for generations, there are some negative factors that give cause to abolish this practice, such that are; faithless electors, the winner take all system, and finally, safe and swing states.

However, according to the sensationalist propaganda that was mentioned earlier, there are three problems to the current Electoral College system. First, a president can be elected to office even if it is not what the people want. Second, electors are not punished for being unfaithful to what they have pledged. (At least not in 26 of the states) Finally the system for electing a president if no electoral majority is reached.

The other reason why Electoral College can’t best represent the people is because only majority of the state's votes count, but the rest are not important or used. This is very important because the smaller states do not really get a say in government while the larger states are in control. Although most people’s vote count toward the state's votes same do not. I think it’s a big problem that not everyone is getting represented and that needs to change. Everyone should have an equal say in who they want to be president and the Electoral College System needs to change for the better of the

The Electoral College, first instituted in 1787, is designed to give all states in the United States a say in who the president will be. The Electoral College works by giving a vote to each House Representative and Senator for the state. The senators and representatives for a state cast their ballot based on the popular vote in the state. Whichever candidate gets the most electoral votes in the state gets all the electoral votes for the state; this is called the winner take all system. Many people believe the Electoral College is flawed and should be changed while others believe it should be thrown away altogether. There are many things about the Electoral College that should be changed but the system is not completely broken. The Electoral College is a flawed process, but one that is needed for a fair election. The way electoral votes are given is fair but, how a President is chosen with no majority, which is a requirement to become president, and the winner take all system are ineffective and must be changed because they do not reflect the true will of the people.

After the 2016 presidential election, the electoral college began to be a widely- debated topic. The electoral college has many reasons to be kept as the way the United States elects its presidents. The electoral college allows for representation throughout the country as opposed to focusing on large areas of the population, it also boosts minority interests, keeps the United States from becoming tyrannical, and presidential candidates pay attention to the fly over states.

The last paper is a political research paper about the structure of the electoral college. Electoral College System Failure, spring 2016, with Mr. Thornburg, was written in MLA format. This paper covers how the Electoral College system has become a two-party system, Republican and Democratic. This paper has helped me have a better understanding of how the Electoral College functions in the country that I live in. Before taking the political science class and doing the research paper, I did not know how the districts were separated and how the first election stages were done. After the paper I concluded that even though the Electoral College system has worked for the United States, maybe there should be a change in how presidents are elected.

The Electoral College was established by our nation’s founding fathers. It was recognized in the Constitution as an agreement between the vote in Congress for the election of President and the popular vote for the election of President. This election system created representative democracy instead of having direct democracy. The Electoral College began in a time when the federal government did not have the power they have today. The idea

The Constitution of the United States of America created a system called the Electoral College where it outlines the rules in which we elect the President of the United States of America. As stated in Article 2, Section 1 of the U. S. Constitution created the Electoral College. Each state receives as many electoral votes as it has senators and representatives. Therefore, each state, including the District of Columbia, will have at least three electors. This is the vision of the Constitution. Now the problem arises when all the Electoral votes from one state are given to the popular winner for that state. This causes a with people’s right to chose their leader as votes of the people that voted for the losing candidate are tossed in the trash. All this while giving the state the ultimate power to elect the president.

The issue with the electoral college is the swing states, those are the ones that actually decide which person wins the election. Someone might have the popular vote but out of nowhere Wisconsin has a whole bunch of electoral points and makes the person with the less votes win the election. Which since that can happen, the candidates for

The Electoral College was first established in the Constitutional Convention of 1787 by the founding fathers as a compromise between the election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens and a vote in Congress. The Electoral College was established because the founding fathers did not trust he people in making the right choice. The Electoral College consists of 538 electors who cast their votes in order to elect the President and Vice-President of the United States, however a majority of 270 votes is required to win. As of today, each state currently has members ranging from 3 to 55 members per state. When ordinary people vote for a president, they are not voting for their president, but rather for the presidential electors.

The United States Constitution Twelfth Amendment, Article II, speaks that“each States shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress.” The total number of electoral college in the country is 538. This includes the number of representative which is 435, plus 100 the number of senators; since the country has 50 states, each State received equal amount of senators which is 2 but the number of representative are best on the population live in that State. The extra 3 is for the district of columbia, which is washington D.C. In order to be a president, someone must have 270 electoral votes. This simple means that the tuesday after the first monday in November every four years, people do not votes for the president but they vote for electors who will votes for the president the Monday after the second Wednesday in December of the same year. Different time in history the presents has won the popular votes but because of the electoral college they end up lose the election. As one can see, this is a serious dilemma that need a change in the constitution. Although this plan seems like a good plan because it has been used in the country for many years; however it has weaknesses that has affect the U.S presidential votes more than one time in the history.

The arguments to modify or eliminate the Electoral College system are all derived from the notion that it is outdated. Under the current system if a candidate wins a large states like California, then they win twenty percent of the needed votes even though California only accounts for eleven percent of the U.S. population. What's more is a president can be elected without winning a majority of the popular vote. This has happened 15 times in U.S. history. The

The Electoral College is the current system used to elect the President of the United States. The system was created in 1787 at the Constitutional Convention and has been used in every US Presidential election since. The Electoral College works by each state having a certain amount of electoral votes, whichever Presidential candidate wins the state, also receives the electoral votes from that state. There is a total of 538 electoral votes, this means that for a candidate to win, they must have the majority electoral votes which is 270. Some people think the Electoral college is flawed, outdated, and some even say that it should be abolished. However, the Electoral college should not be abolished because it has been used successfully to choose the past 50 Presidents of the United States.

Since the constitution was ratified in 1787, the United States has chosen each president through the process 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 makes the popular vote pointless.

The Electoral College is a system used to elect the next President of the United States, the votes are casted by each state. This process is used to resolve and election to when no candidate would reach a majority of electoral votes. The founding fathers wanted to protect the interest in the smaller states and rural areas. Framers from the Constitution feared direct democracy, Hamilton and others didn’t trust population to make the right choice. A group of electors that are selected in each state legislature would elect the President and the Vice President of the United States. The Electoral College is something that will help decide who should be the president and so there wasn’t any conflict or problems with the people.