Electoral process

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

Do you know how our country’s Presidential election system (The Electoral College) works? For many years I didn’t know much about the Electoral College, except that they were the system that elected the president. So join me as we discover the aspects of the Electoral College. Our founding fathers created a special election system called the Electoral College to elect the Presidents of America. The Electoral College’s Function, the reasoning behind its creation, its mathematics, and how those mathematics

The Electoral College has long been controversial, and is subject to both criticism and defense. To understand why either side is valid we must look at its values and its weaknesses, its pros and cons. The Electoral College was devised to proportionally dole out the power of selecting our executives geographically. In doing so the Electoral College gives otherwise marginalized portions of the U.S. population a voice. Adversely the Electoral College can be seen as an obstruction to democracy and the

The Electoral College was created in 1787 during the Constitutional Convention. It was one of several proposed possible ways to determine the president, including by popular vote, having state legislatures decide, having senators decide, having governors decide, and having a special committee for senators decide. Ultimately, the Founding Fathers chose the Electoral College because it incorporated the people in the decision of the presidency and because it allowed small states to have greater representation

dismissed? One thing we as the people of the US believe we have a say in is the election process. Now, perhaps even our say in that, is compromised. The electoral college has taken away our right to have a say in the actions of our government. From faulty representatives, to inequality in vote value, to contradictory results, abolishing the electoral college will work for the betterment of our say in the election process. We elect a group of representatives to cast the popular vote among the group

In today’s world, the Electoral college is a big debate among the citizens of the United States. Many people disagree with the Electoral College. These people argue that rather than the Electoral College there should be more of a Democratic form of election. The Framers of the Constitution debated this argument even back when it was first developed. If it was still disputed back then, and they still chose it, why do many citizens feel it should be changed? The Electoral College has worked for more

The Twelfth Amendment of the Constitution established the electoral college. The founding fathers made the electoral college as a compromise between election of president by congress vote and popular vote of citizens (What is the electoral college). With this system, many incidents where the president hasn’t received majority of the popular vote and still became president has occurred and due to this much controversy around the electoral college has occurred. The most recent incident was the election

Brendon Goss Ms. Houle English 9-8 11 April 2017 The Modern Election-Arguments Against the Electoral College The electoral college is a mash-up of ancient ideas that amalgamate in an outdated mess that doesn 't make sense in the modern day. In the 2000 US election, George W. Bush won the electoral college and lost the popular vote, This proved that the electoral college has too much power in comparison to the popular vote and disproved what the founding fathers had planned for the college included

The Electoral College: Ingenious or Inept? The 2016 presidential election left many voters feeling bitter and hostile. President-elect Donald Trump is a minority president, meaning that he won the electoral vote yet lost the popular vote (“2016 Election Results”). There have only been four minority presidents preceding Trump: John Quincy Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes, Benjamin Harrison, and George W. Bush (Stepman). However, recently some voters and politicians began calling for eliminating the electoral

this argument, replacing the Electoral College with a popular vote is shown to provide a more unified and knowledgeable country. As shown through Spenser Mestel and Clifton B. Parker, a popular vote would empower all voters and allow minorities and majorities to hold equal power. Additionally, the Electoral College remains irrelevant because the basis for its creation was eliminated by the Anti-Slavery Amendments or the Thirteenth Amendment. Furthermore, the Electoral College restricts presidential