Should We Replace The Electoral College?

Though our founding fathers created the Electoral College over 200 years ago, it has been changed with time to accommodate modern needs and is still an important and necessary part of our electoral system. The Electoral College ensures political stability in our nation by encouraging the two-party system and also protects the interests of minorities. Furthermore, the Electoral College helps maintain a united country by requiring widespread popular support of a candidate in order for him or her to become president.

The Electoral College is an excuse of the electoral process, proving itself to be undemocratic, false in representation, and harmful to third-parties. Therefore, the Electoral College should be abolished, and the process should rely on the popular vote to have the leading judgement in the election procedure for a new president. The Electoral College has proven that a candidate may not need to win the popular vote of the people of the nation in order to win the presidential election. But first, beforehand, let me introduce the system in which the Electoral Process is based upon. The Electoral Process is the government’s created system of indirect voting in order to elect the nation’s president.

How would you react if you learned that the Presidential candidate you had cast your vote for, had actually received more of the popular vote than his competition, but was not elected the next President of the United States? Every four years in November over 90 million Americans vote for the presidential candidates, then in the middle of December the president and vice president of the United States are actually elected by the votes of only 538 citizens. Wouldn't you think there was an obvious flaw in the system? I would be willing to bet that the majority of you would, but in the case of the Electoral College apparently the majority doesn't count.

One primary shortcoming with the Electoral College is that it is based on population. This means that each state in the Union gets a predetermined quantity of electoral

A debate has been brewing in recent years about the way we elect our president. The first system is the Electoral College which is very 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 think the bill’s risks and costs are not worth the possibility of some gains for certain states.

In this country, we hold elections every four years to select the president. The founding fathers of our country established the electoral college to give the original thirteen states a fair voice in the election process. This country electoral called the electoral college into question on more the one occasion. In the most recent election, President-elect Donald Trump won the electoral vote over Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote. This election has sent the country into an uproar and citizens of the United States are now challenging the legitimacy of the electoral college process. This paper will examine whether this process is reliable and valid when choosing the leadership of this country.

As citizens of the United State of America, one of our most important rights is that of which to vote. By voting, the general population has a say in who its leaders are. Votes for local, state, and even federal representatives directly reflect who the constituents want in office. However, America’s highest office is not elected by a vote of the people. Instead we use a confusing and outdated system called the Electoral College. Our president is not elected by the people, but by 538 electors who can legally vote for whomever they choose. Several times in our nations history an elector has voted against the people’s will. Three presidents have been elected into office by the electoral college and

The Electoral College is the United States' archaic process of electing presidents. It was established in the Constitution as a compromise between election by Congress and election by popular vote. Each state is given a specific number of electors based on the number of its U.S. Representatives and Senators (NARA). This allows for over-representation of small states and under-representation of large states, while the winner-takes-all format followed by most states could result in a candidate winning the popular vote but losing the election (NARA). This has actually happened on four separate occasions, leaving four black marks on the nation's history (NARA). Despite these mishaps and constant calls for reform, the faulty system remains in

Certain philosophies of the Electoral College infringe on the democracy that the United States of America stands for; however, the Electoral College was put in place by the Founding Fathers for a reason, and under the Constitution that reason should be respected. American Democracy suffers under the overbearing nature of this voting system, but it is a fact that a pure democracy would never work. Under this system, there would always be an inferior minority. Reforming the system is a solution to this problem of whether or not the Electoral College should continue or cease to exist. There should still be a system of electors, but instead of the warped winner-take-all system, the votes should be given proportionally to the popular vote. This

The Electoral College is a process, not a place of schooling. The Electoral College is responsible for electing who will be our next president of the United States by compromising between electing the president by vote and electing the president by popular vote of qualified citizens. The electoral College should be abolished because it is an unfair and unnecessary way to choose the president. Each candidate earns points by winning individual states. Each state is worth a different amount of points based on population, added with the number of senators. There are 538 electors within the college. People are finding it a challenge to decide if the Electoral College should be changed or abolished. If it were up to me, it would be abolished, because if the president wins the popular vote, they get the majority of the citizens votes. This system is unfair because each state has a different number population, so each has a different amount of points. When I am eligible to vote, I want to be able to vote for who I want, the majority of my state’s population should not be able to decide. The Electoral College may be

The electoral college being abolished is very difficult and this has failed each time someone tired. Keeping the electoral college is also difficult because it has not served its purpose and is outdated. I believe the best answer to this controversial issue is to reform this system, but reforming with the National Popular Vote is not very likely. The National Popular Vote seems impossible because you need small states and you must get votes from every vote. If the national popular vote ever works to will take years and the road elections have taken we need this reform as soon as possible. The main factors needed for the reform is that all states will have a say in how to pick the electoral votes and the size of state shouldn’t matter. States should not be forced to choose a method and no state will feel as if they do not have a say in who represents them. We must ensure voters feel as if their vote matter, they are heard, and considered within the government. A reform will also help with the candidates with the most votes within the popular vote wins the presidential election because we are a country for the people. What the people want is what they should have. A reform will allow for less controversy surrounding the presidential

The debate on the efficacy and fairness of the Electoral College is one that has lasted since the birth of the United States. At its core, it is a compromise between states small and large to spread presidential voting power more evenly between them. It is a point of major contention since it removes some power from states with higher population and gives it to the those with lower populations. This contention has only been exacerbated by recent presidential races that have been won via Electoral College votes, but lost based on the popular vote. While the Electoral College does not represent the people directly, it is the superior system for electing a president that cares about the entire country rather than just large cities.

The Electoral College has been broken ever since it was put into the cConstitution and it has only gained more problems as political parties grew. The Electoral College is the system that the United States uses to elect their presidents every four years. The system is setup in a way where the popular vote does not determine who wins the election but the amount of electoral votes you get does. Each state is given one vote per Senator and Representative they have in the House of Representatives. Whichever presidential candidate wins more electoral votes in the states wins the entire election, no matter what the popular vote is. The Electoral College should not be completely abolished, but it does need to be changed from its original format. The popular vote should have more influence on the election, political parties should be eliminated, and each state should be given the same amount of votes per population rather than votes per Senator and Representatives.

Democratic theorist, Robert Dahl once said, “…every member must have an equal and effective opportunity to vote, and all votes must be counted as equal.” This quote greatly summarizes what the Electoral College system means; every person in the United States is guaranteed one vote. Everyone should have an equal opportunity to elect who serves in the government, and we are given that opportunity through this system. This is what the Founding Fathers came up with in order to solve the problems they faced over 200 years ago. However, some have opposed this system is not fit for this democracy, and argue that other systems would work more fairly. On the contrary, I strongly believe that the Electoral College system should be kept because it is the fairest way to elect the President.

I was assigned to focus on the topic about the electoral college. By this, I had to research on whether or not the United States actually needed the electoral college for presidential elections. But, asides from the research, I had already known that we choose our electors by using the popular vote, and those electors vote for a candidate to become our next president. We let our voices be heard within 538 people. However, after I researched more in-depth about this topic, I learned that the electoral college had an imbalance amongst the states, based on population differences and swing states, yet it may still hold the country undivided, considering that without the electoral college, we would get into more arguments and be more divided between states, since our society is very diverse with different opinions.