The Pros And Cons Of The Electoral College

Research suggests that the Electoral College system should be amended because it poorly illustrates democracy, is outdated and

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 (Green) However, the issues of the present day can’t help but wonder, is the Electoral College’s system outdated and corrupt?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.

Our Founding Fathers had great concern over the topic of the government obtaining too much power over the people and with that in mind they constructed a system of indirect election where citizens would choose an elector. That system would distant the citizens from directly electing the president, avoiding any possibility to create tyranny. Their fears were about whether citizens could exercise the best judgement and their capability to fully understand and make good choices in voting. They did not want a group to go off in the wrong direction and take control over others. They thought that a chosen group of more educated and elite individuals elected by the people would be able to better interpret the situation and exercise better judgement. In a way, they were trying to safeguard democracy by instituting the Electoral College as the method to elect our presidents.

In the United States, the Electoral College determines the victor of a national election. Each state has its own number of electoral votes, which is determined by state population. This system is a “winner takes all” system. Which means the candidate with 50 percent or more of the votes in an individual state gets all of that states electoral votes. The 2016 presidential election will have 538 electoral votes, this means that the election will be decided who is the first candidate to 270 votes. Some people have seen this system as outdated and unjust. Many are looking at a way to change the system and others would like to do away with the system

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 is something that affects every citizen in this country. The Presidential election is also something that many people feel passionate about, regardless of where you are. In the Presidential Election, Minnesota has voted for the democratic candidate almost every time in the last 100 years. However, Waconia has not been the best representation of the state's views, since it is one of the most conservative cities in the nation, making it a very unique place to live, politically. Because I have lived in Waconia and Minnesota my whole life, I have seen both sides of the Electoral College and how it affects my surroundings. The Electoral College is valuable for this state in the sense that it gives Minnesota some importance come election, even if we do vote democratic nine times out of ten. For the city of Waconia, the Electoral College might make citizens here think it is not the best system since most republican voters might feel like their votes mean nothing in the end, because of the consistent trend of this state voting for the democratic candidate.

The Electoral College was created in the year 1787. Before it was established, the men who drafted the Constitution also known as the Framers debated several formats for electing the president and vice president for the United States. One of the formats they were debating was to have the Congress choose the president however some felt that there may be corruption, inappropriate political issues and possible interference from foreign powers (Kimberling, W.C. 2008). The other format the Framers were debating were to have the State legislatures select president but it was also rejected because of fear that the president that is obligated to the State legislature have a possibility to wear down federal authority and underestimate the idea of the federation (Kimberling, W.C.

This occurs because of the extreme difference of population between the two states, with Wyoming only having one-hundred and ninety-five citizens while California has roughly thirty-nine million. Through the electoral college a vote is worth more purely based off location, and due to the existence of swing states this distortion is even greater. A microcosm of this event can be seen in a majority of cities, with are primarily made of non-whites. And because the nation's population is growing, with city growth being much more rapid than suburban and rural growth, the urban vote will carry less weight in the Electoral college system than the smaller less populated

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

For hundreds of years, the Electoral College has been the way that we elect our President and Vice President. Recently, people have begun to question this system. Many people would like to abolish the Electoral College. The Electoral College should be abolished because smaller states have a disadvantage, a president can be elected even if he or she does not represent the majority of the people, and people may feel marginalized due to the “‘winner take all’” system.

The Electoral College has been disliked by many but also liked by other brilliant people in the United States. Some People have wanted to abolish the Electoral College. Former presidents and American leaders have thought that the Electoral College is a good way to take some power away from the people. The Electoral College has also been a very good way to elect this great country's leader. The Electoral College is here to stay. The founders of the Constitution agree and didn’t want the people to vote on the president directly. Why don’t you?

The Electoral College is an obstruction to our democracy. The Electoral College should be abolished for the following reasons. The first reason the Electoral College should be abolished is It creates the possibility for the loser of the popular vote to win the electoral vote. This is just not a theoretical possibility it has happened in the elections of 1876, 1888 and 2000. The year 2016 is shaping up to be one of these cases.

The 2016 presidential election was an example of the discrepancy between the Electoral College votes and the national popular votes. If the last presidential election had been decided by a national popular vote, then Hillary Clinton would have won the presidency because she had the majority of votes. However, due to the design of the Electoral College, Donald Trump won the election for president in 2016; although, he lost the national popular vote. Just as some people questioned the effectiveness of the Electoral College during some of the previous elections, several people questioned the effectiveness of the Electoral College again in 2016. The debate about whether the Electoral College should be kept or

Electoral College     Should we abolish or keep the electoral college? The electoral college is the finale of voting to choose presidency. The popular vote helps decide how many electors in each state can vote. Once the votes in each state are counted for, the candidate who won the majority of votes for that particular state, gets to choose which group of electors are allowed to actually vote for president. Disregarding the population, each state is given a minimum of three electoral votes.

Candidates running for president might not get the majority vote, but still win the election. How is this possible? This is due to the electoral college. The electoral college is a system where each state has a specific amount of electoral votes that is determined that state’s population. Either candidate from either party can win a state and that candidate will get the number of votes that the state has. Whoever has the most electoral votes based on states, will win the election even if that candidate does not have the majority vote from the people. Should the electoral college be abolished or changed? The outdated ideas of our founding fathers, the number of electoral votes, and a few key elections support how the Electoral College should