Partisan Bias Analysis
In the 1787 constitutional convention, there were many ideas discussed on the election of the president. This, to the demise of some, this is where the idea of the electoral college was formed. The original idea was that the most intelligent and high off people should be the ones to elect the president because the framers feared that the public majority was too uneducated to make decisions regarding the president and their opinion would shadow out the opinion of the minority opinion. Unfortunately, these ideas are still used in the presidential election process. The first design, according to article 2 of section 1 of the constitution, “...the number of electors is based of the number of members of Congress-435 in the House of Representatives,100
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A partisan bias is when a person of a certain group shows a biased emotional allegiance to a particular group of people or ideas. “While an unbiased system yields identical electoral college votes for equivalent Republican and Democratic vote proportions, a biased system yields more votes for one party than the other.” (Ardoin and Parsons 2007,2) For example, if the democratic vote gets 50 percent of popular votes and 46 of electoral votes,and the republicans get 50 percent of the popular votes but gets 54 of the electoral votes, the republicans have an 8 percent partisan bias. This can be easily fixed if the the government requires the electoral votes to directly represent the popular vote. Regardless of it being left winged or right-winged. I also feel that the electoral college voters should directly represent the diversity of that state. There should be a ratio that represents the number of democratic voters and republican voters, there should also be diversity in the cultures of the people therefore every culture represented in the state,can be represented in the Electoral College in some sense. I believe that if the state representatives that pick the electors were forced to pick them without bias or picking their favorite people of people that support or bandwagon with them, the electoral college would have more
A partisan bias is when a person of a certain group shows a biased emotional allegiance to a particular group of people or ideas. “While an unbiased system yields identical electoral college votes for equivalent Republican and Democratic vote proportions, a biased system yields more votes for one party than the other.” (Ardoin and Parsons 2007,2) For example, if the democratic vote gets 50 percent of popular votes and 46 of electoral votes,and the republicans get 50 percent of the popular votes but gets 54 of the electoral votes, the republicans have an 8 percent partisan bias. This can be easily fixed if the the government requires the electoral votes to directly represent the popular vote. Regardless of it being left winged or right-winged. I also feel that the electoral college voters should directly represent the diversity of that state. There should be a ratio that represents the number of democratic voters and republican voters, there should also be diversity in the cultures of the people therefore every culture represented in the state,can be represented in the Electoral College in some sense. I believe that if the state representatives that pick the electors were forced to pick them without bias or picking their favorite people of people that support or bandwagon with them, the electoral college would have more