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    the winner the president is chosen by the Electoral College this is an unfair system in this system people are able to be elected president when they do not win the popular vote this system should be abolished and replaced by selecting a president by popular vote alone. The main flaw of this system is allowing a candidate to win the election without securing the popular vote. It allows for the President to be elected if they receive 270 or more electoral votes. Large states such as California have

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    this kind of separation among the classes restricted in their organization 's own particular antidiscrimination strategy dispersed to workers (Browne, 1943). In response to the question, Biosport should allow their employees to participate in electoral process of which rallies are part of it, because is when they can make the right decision to choose noble leaders. It also demonstrates that the employers have knowledge on democratic rights, which the workers are entitled to. However, this should be

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    Abolish the Electoral College Everyone has their own opinion on the United States’ way of election and its electoral college. The Electoral College is the process that the founding fathers established in the Constitution to elect the President. It is a compromise between the election of the President by a vote in Congress and the election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. This election process is made up of the selection of the electors, the meeting of the electors where

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    Do you believe the electoral college is the ideal method to vote for the next president of the united states? I do not agree with this method of choosing the president and I think the popular vote should be the method of voting instead. In the Electoral College you vote for someone to vote the president for you which defeats the purpose of voting. Especially since that person legally doesn't have to vote for who you want. Also the electoral college makes voting more complicated which differs from

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    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

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    Opponents of the Electoral College system also point to the risk of so-called "faithless" Electors. A "faithless Elector" is one who is pledged to vote for his party 's candidate for president but nevertheless votes for another candidate. There have been 7 such Electors in this century and as recently as 1988 when a Democrat Elector in the State of West Virginia cast his votes for Lloyd Bensen for president and Michael Dukakis for vice president instead of the other way around. Faithless Electors

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    The Electoral College has been around since 1787 and is how the United States elects the president and vice president. Many people support the Electoral College because the Founding Fathers thought it was the only way to have a democracy without completely trusting the people to elect the president. The Electoral College process is stated in the Constitution so many people think it is the only way to elect the president. Many critics of the Electoral College call it out on the fact that a candidate

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    Electoral College: Criticisms, Effects, and Context The Electoral College has been losing favor for years, but recent elections have created all-new debates about its use and value. The institution has existed almost since American elections have existed, and it is deeply intertwined with the issue of political parties. American voting is highly bureaucratized. The Electoral College betrays American values of majority rule: a candidate can win the election without a majority of popular votes; some

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    if the Electoral College and if it is important or not in our country today. Do we really need to have the Electoral College? I believe it is important in our country today and I believe we should try to keep it in our country for as long as we can. “The Electoral College is made up of 538 electors who cast votes to decide the President and Vice-President of the United States” (What is the Electoral College, 2012). In order for a candidate to win they must get the majority of the electoral votes which

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    Electoral College Thesis

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    Electoral College The Electoral College is the indirect election of the President of the United States. We, the people, vote for the president which determines the popular vote, but we don't truly elect the president, it just selects the electors so THEY choose the president. That is the second-part process of choosing electors. The first-part process is that the political parties in each state select electors. Although this assembly was needed back when the constitution was first established, because

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