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    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

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    than you are mistaken, just like millions of Americans who hope their votes would pick next president. When voting for President, we actually vote for state electors who hold Electoral votes. Electoral votes are the votes that decide victory of candidate in election. This Electoral College System has limited democracy to people in major three ways. Electoral college holds an ability to alter result of Election over popular votes, discriminates candidates to campaign in certain states not others, and

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    If I had the opportunity to change the Constitution of the United States of America, I would change the Electoral College system. Like many other Americans, I feel that the Electoral College system is not effective. It caries a notion of the state versus the people, electors oversee a large part of the country and is change the answer to this issue? I believe that times have changed and we need to reform the electoral system all while not changing the constitution. The Constitution of the United

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    election, there are two factors that need to be considered: the popular vote and the Electoral College. Many people believe that the Electoral College provides absolute certainty of the outcome, but do the state electors actually provide a voice for the people? There is no doubt the people are the ones who vote for the electors so the desired vote could be made by them; however, the voters have no power over whom the electors decide to vote for. In reality, the electors are the ones who choose who will be

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    DEATH To The COLLEGE Ever heard the saying, “Every vote counts?” The real question we have to ask ourselves today is, does every vote really count? Can a presidential election be decided by just one vote? It has never been that close in the popular vote, but that isn't how the president is elected. The president can lose by over a million votes, as seen in the 2016 presidential race, and still win the electoral college. How can we, as Americans, condone an illegitimate president? The Electoral

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    too much in taxes, military spending or the political power in office. We all for the most part want to see some sort of change for the better, but rarely does anyone ever exercise a plan to put that change in motion. Our government using a simple but efficient tactic can address these types issues purely through the power of voting. Yet over forty percent of Americans didn’t vote in the 2012 presidential elections, as America ranks twentieth out of twenty-one countries in voter turnout. This is rapidly

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    Ronald Reagan was The United States President;Jesse Jackson’s main goal was to get everyone to vote so that there could be a change in the nation. He believed that this nation was set in their ways, and in order to “change” everybody needed to vote for him or another democrat primary. The strong effective usage of allusions, similes, appeals, and repetition gave the audience the courage to come out and vote. Jesse Jackson used an allusion and a simile to express the purpose of pushing and continuing

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    Why Do We Need Voting?

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    Voting shapes our reality. Government officials require us to vote so they can be placed in office. The nation might not have the individual it needed all in view of one non-voter. We'll let our country down in light of the fact that they gave you the open door and appropriate to vote and we don't vote. The lawmakers rely upon us to put them where they need to be. Their fates rely upon what we do in our voting. We should vote to have these individuals experience their great willed guarantees that

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    time pick not to vote since they feel their vote does not matter, but instead one vote tallies from various perspectives. Your choice to vote or not, will have wide outcomes on people wherever all through the world, a few whom don't have the benefit to vote themselves. In state and national races, policymakers are made laws, methodologies, and game plans that will have impacts for an impressive time to come. The most surely understood reason people say they don't vote is, one vote does not count,

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    the right to vote. In 1848 women started protesting and fighting for their right to vote. This movement went on for 70 years of protesting. Finally, they won the battle in 1920 and the 19th amendment was passed granting woman their right to vote. Voting equality was not complete, because African Americans did not have the right to vote. They started demanding they right without giving up. In 1965 after years of protesting the 15th amendment granted African America the right to vote. The 26th Amendment

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