Essay about Young Americans Must Vote!

Americans are fortunate enough to have the right to vote, so we should take opportunity to be heard. “...many Americans do not vote” (Doc BE). Some Americans do not take the chance to vote. For example, “Since World War II, no presidential election has ever involved 65% or more of registered voters!” (Doc BE). Voting is important because, “People express their consent or disapproval in many different ways” (Doc BE).

When Americans vote for president, they are actually voting for presidential electors, who are known as a whole to be the electoral college. These electors, who are elected by citizens of the United States, are the ones that elect the chief executive. The electoral college has shaped the past, present, and future of the United States ever since it was constructed by the Constitutional Convention of 1787. The electoral college was created with fair and good intentions.

Established in Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution, the Electoral College is a system utilized in The United States of America to select the President and Vice President. This process was established by the Founding Fathers in 1787, when the Constitution was written. The original purpose of the electoral system was to ensure that those who select the leaders of this nation were the most knowledgeable and informed people that America had to offer. The electors - the elected officials that make up the Electoral College - are elected to office through a general election wherein the entire national population has the right to vote. The President of the United States, however, is actually elected to office by the Electoral College only, regardless of the popular vote of the citizens in general. Thus, the Presidential election is the only federal election in our nation where the vote of the citizenry does not directly determine the victor. Despite the fact that this electoral system has been in place and operational for over two hundred years, the Electoral College is looked upon by some as an honorable system, whereas others view it as faulty. The Electoral College is not fair and equitable because it is based on population, it is not trusted by the people, and it is unjust to the wishes of the citizens.

The electoral system was first established in the constitution in Article II, Section 1, Clause 2-4. In short, the constitution stated that each state appointed their electors in accordance to their state legislature. Each state would have an amount of electors equivalent to the number of representatives in the house and senate combined for that state. It also said that “no Senator, Representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States could be appointed as an elector.”

The Electoral elects the President of the United States through a complicated process that has not changed much throughout the 200 years it has been around.

The Electoral College was established in 1788 by Article II of the US Constitution revised by the Twelfth Amendment (ratified June 15, 1804), the Fourteenth Amendment (ratified July 1868), and the Twenty-Third Amendment (ratified Mar. 29, 1961) (tumblr.com). Electoral college made up of 538 electors each state is allowed one elector for each Representative and Senator (Washington DC) is allowed 3 Electors a group of electors is chosen by each political party each presidential candidate has their own unique slate of potential Electors. Political parties chose the electors for the slate these people are chosen to recognize their service and dedication to that political party. When voters cast their vote on election day they are voting to select their state’s Electors.

The United States Electoral College is ultimately the way the President is elected. The electors are first picked from their state party, and then on election day they are voted on, based on their party. Then those electors take the popular vote from their state to either pursued their vote, or not. The electors are under no obligation to vote in the way that their state did. This is one reason why sometime the popular vote and the electoral votes don’t agree.

In the article “How Does The Census Choose The Number Of Electors? Here's How It Works.” Rutherford-Morrison discusses just how the Census chooses the number of electors and what qualification need to be met. She opens with a brief description on how the Electoral College works. Each state has a group of electors, a Democratic group and a Republican group. The party that wins the majority amount of votes in each state usually votes in favor of that party's candidate. This gives all the electoral votes the state has to that candidate. This is how the candidate can win the Presidency without winning the popular vote. Rutherford-Morrison discusses how each state gets their number of electoral votes. It is stated in the constitution that the number

Every four years, Americans choose their next president using a unique -- if not controversial and even arcane -- system called the Electoral College. "Electors" are chosen to represent their state's voters and, about one month later, officially confirm the winner through a mostly symbolic vote. It takes 270 electoral votes to win the presidency. The U.S. system is the only current example in the world in which a head of state of a democracy is elected so

The president is determined is not from popular vote, but the Electoral College, which is a form of indirect democracy. In the Electoral College, each state has a body of electors equal to the number of the state’s senators & representatives who vote for the President and Vice President on behalf of the public. Following the November election, electors meet in their states to mail their votes to the VP (who is in charge of the

Some may not know this but as college students we have the ability to swing elections. We are known as millennials voters, which is the generation born between 1982 and 2004 according to the Webster’s dictionary. As millennials we are an important voting bloc, we represent a powerful force to which sometimes we don’t take advantage of. If millennials don’t go out to vote, it will have a huge impact on who becomes the next president. Only 38 percent of those between the ages of 18 and 24 go out to vote and only 49.5 percent of those between the ages of 25 and 44 go vote according to the 2012 Census Bureau.

Imagine a place, where no one has rights, or free will. You're life is in the hands of an unreliable government. Someone who you don't trust. But there is nothing you can do. They were elected by other people, after all. Good morning 6A. voting is very important and we can’t risk the leadership of our country. We can’t give our fates for the next several years to 13 year olds. The voting age should stay as it is because children may not take it seriously enough, most don’t know enough about politics, and in the end their votes won’t make much of a difference.

In the Persuasive argument, “The Right Voting Age”, the National Youth Rights Association. National Youth Rights Association believe that 16 have the right to vote. ”According to National Youth Rights Association, “As students, youths are most directly impacted by education policy, they have the perspective to determine what changes are needed” (451)”. 16 years old are not really ready to vote like over 18 because they don’t know a lot about the life they have to be more source, so they will know how to act in the life and vote about things. I disagree with National Youth Rights Association view that, 16 years old can’t vote because their ideas are different from 18 and older so it will be in our cultures so many problems of 16 years old are voting. For example, if

The Electoral College was a compromise in order to pick a president between the Congress’s vote and the citizens’ vote. The selection of Electors would meet and vote for the president and vice president, they would also count the electoral votes by Congress. There are 538 electors, but a majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect a vice president or a vice president. The amount of electors equals the amount of members of the House of Representative that states have plus two more for the Senator. Each candidate running for president has a group of electors in each state. The candidates’ electors are chosen by the candidates’ political party but, different laws in different states change how the electors are selected. When voting for a President we are actually voting for our state candidates’ election. After the presidential election, the governor of their state writes a Certificate of Ascertainment which list the candidates for that state as well as their electors. The Certificate of Ascertainment also shows which electors will represent the state at the election meeting as well as the winning presidential candidate. The meeting of the electors is held on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December after the presidential election. In their respective states, the electors cast their votes for both the Vice President and President on separate ballots. The voters’ votes are then recorded and sent to Congress on the Certificates of Votes.

The Electoral College functions by working through a process. To begin the process, the Electors are chosen. There are five hundred and thirty-eight Electors this seemly random number is calculated by adding the number of members in the House of Representatives, which is four hundred and thirty-five, to the number of those in the Senate which is one hundred, and three extra votes from the District of Columbia (D.C). (U.S National Archives and Records Administration, 2017). To choose the Electors, each state produces a slate/group of individuals for each major political party that promised to vote for their party’s candidate. (Kimberling, 1992). This means that before the popular vote there are at least 1076 individuals waiting to become Electors 538 from each major party so 538 times 2. Afterward, a popular vote is held in which the people vote for a candidate’s slate of individuals which on ballots appears to the voter as the candidate themselves. The process becomes different per state at this step, all states except Maine and Nebraska use the system called Winner-Takes-All. Maine and Nebraska use a system called proportional representation where the electoral votes are award based on the majority in each congressional district. The Winner-Takes-All system states that when a candidate wins a simple majority (50.001%) of the vote in one state, they win all the electoral votes of that state. (Morone & Kersh). Once all the states