2000 election

The night of November 7th 2000 put a flawed aspect of American democracy at the forefront of the world stage. The election to the office of the leader of the free world, the Presidency of the United States of America was in question. How could a candidate receive more votes and still lose in the richest most powerful democracy in the world? I need not to go into a debate about the Electoral College as my stance will be clarified rather clearly. The night of the election it seemed as if the Vice

(Andrews, 1996) said, “Our elections are free, it's in the results where eventually we pay.” Oftentimes, people vote based on public opinion or information obtained by the media. Voters should inform themselves on how the Electoral College works in order to make good decisions when voting for the president. Electoral College delegates elect the President. Voters elect Electoral College delegates. The Electoral College was created as a compromise between election by Congress or popular vote

As of late the Electoral College has been looked down upon for their decisions in the 2016 election and many have considered doing away with it. If this were to happen, the popular vote would be the direct vote. Nonetheless, by giving the popular vote the most authority, it would be like giving a monkey a loaded gun: they wouldn't know how to use it and it can lead to many more minor problems that can easily be avoided with the help of the Electoral College. Giving the Electoral College too little

government. The Electoral College is a system for election in which each state selects electors equal in number to that of its representation in the House and Senate. (O'Connor and Sabato, 2000) This method took the election of the president and vice-president out of the people and Congress's hands, and placed it in that of the selected electors. (O'Connor and Sabato, 2000) Forty-eight of the fifty states use the "winner-take-all" method. (Lavelle et al., 2000) That means that whichever candidate wins

Since 1962 when the referendum on the Direct Election of the President of the French Republic took place, the President was to be chosen by the people through universal suffrage instead of by the electoral college like it has been before. But the changes in French politics were far from over. During September 2000, the French voters had to make a very important decision that would forever change the nature of French politics. They were to decide if a constitutional amendment should be considered

The Electoral College Versus a Direct Election System “The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President…they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President” (Findlaw.com). The Twelfth Amendment set forth the rules and regulations for which the Office of President shall be determined. The founding fathers, in the second constitutional convention, laid the grounds

is the next leader of the free world. Who that gentleman is will in all likelihood be determined by the Supreme Court. Which is probably not what our nation’s Founding Fathers had in mind when they designed the Presidential election process. The 2000 Presidential Election has been nothing short of a fiasco on many

The film Recount narrates the 2000 U.S. presidential election between Bush and Gore. The election between George W. Bush, the Governor of Texas, and U.S. Vice President Al Gore is one of the most controversial and headlining rulings of all time. The film begins with the November 7th election and ends with the ruling of the Supreme Court, which stopped the election recount in Florida on December 12th. Mixing fictional recreations and real news footage, the revealing documentary shows a behind the

the Electoral College seems to be the topic in every conversation and the thesis to every essay. The uncontrollable desire to know the truth behind the mystery is stirring in the minds of the people in the United States of America. With the 2000 Elections underway sides are beginning to be taken among the people. Many oppose the Electoral College because of the fact that unknowing electors choose their leader and many support it because it was

the American political process”(340). McClenaghan also defines the Electoral College as “the body that makes the formal selection of the nation’s President, from what the Framers intended into a `rubber stamp’ for the popular vote in presidential elections”(67). The original Electoral College did not succeed for very long, however; it only worked for as long as George Washington was President