Essay About Electoral College

Election time can be a stressful time for millions of people in the United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific. During this time, the country is experiencing change and that could frighten people. Citizens go to booths to vote on who they want as the people to be their president. Although every citizen has the right to vote, not everyone votes and the final decision is not up to the people. The final decision is up to the electors within the Electoral College and can decide the history for our country over the next four years. The Electoral College was created so that uneducated people wouldn't put an under qualified person into the Presidential Office. “The Founding Fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens.” (https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/about.html). The Founding Fathers created the Electoral College within the Constitution of the United
The Electoral College has been successful in that it has picked many presidents over hundreds of years. Over the years their has been failures in which there has been tied Electoral College votes and the popular vote choosing a different president than the Electoral College. The Electoral College has failed to properly represent its people in the popular vote in five elections. The most recent ones have been in the 21st century occurring in 2000 and 2016. The 2000 vote was that George Bush had lost the popular vote, but won the Electoral Vote. The same thing had happened to Donald Trump this year. The two ties in history were in 1800 and 1824. These elections were forced to be brought upon the House of Representatives and voted there. Each state got one vote and the president was decided on who had more states voting for