Electoral College System

In America, every four years there is a presidential election that gives Americans the right to vote. The United States is a role model to other countries of the concept of giving all citizens equal share in the government and the way it is run. The Electoral College ruins the voting and creates an unfair system that is not equal. It destroys the fundamental part of democracy that gives everyone the right to vote. The Electoral College raises the question "Is the United States a republic?". With the Electoral College, it is a winner take all system which makes some votes practically useless. The founding fathers believed that most people were uneducated and would make uninformed decisions and the way news travel has changed. With this system,
The United States is a republic and has set a new standard to give their citizens the right to vote, however, the Electoral College should be based on popular vote. There have been four cases when a president lost the popular vote and became president because they won the electoral college(History). This scenario has happened four times out of the fifty-seven elections, meaning that seven percent of the elections turn out this way. The most recent time this happened in 2000 when George W. Bush won the electoral college, but lost the popular vote. If the majority of people to not want a candidate to be president, then why should he/she end up being president. This is an issue with the electoral college and this big important determined from the citizens that live under the
Although the founding fathers created this system and was able to work for their time, communication has changed over the past 200 years. According to Gene Green, a democratic representative from Texas “Every citizen's vote should count in America, not just the votes of partisan insiders in the Electoral College. The Electoral College was necessary when communications were poor, literacy was low and voters lacked information about out-of-state figures, which is clearly no longer the case.” A parisian is a person that is a strong believer in a certain party. When he says “partisan insider”, he is referring to the electors that make up the 538 people. Now news can be shared all around the country in just a matter of seconds. With news being very extremely accessible, people can learn more about a candidate and make substantial and informed decisions. America's 3rd president Thomas Jefferson stated, “I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the