Reasons To Abolish Electoral College

Proposed Amendment to Abolish Electoral College
The Framers created the Electoral College in the Constitution over 300 years ago, and the system exists even today. The Electoral College’s purposes include giving power to small states and to give people the indirect power to elect the president, so that the wrong candidate would not win the election. However, many people contemplate whether the Electoral College should still exist. One major reason why includes the most recent presidential election. Most people know that the candidate who won the popular vote by about three million votes did not become president. As a result, the creation of petitions to abolish the Electoral College surfaced; for example one petition on the petition website moveon.org received over 610,000 signatures. Although many people believe that the Electoral College should be abolished, I do not support the bill.
It is for the following two reasons you should vote against this
bill. Taking away the Electoral College removes some of the power of the states to participate in the federal government, which has great importance. Also, removal of the Electoral College would not do much because electoral votes should represent the general opinion of the people, so even with the Electoral College removed, the results may be the same.
Moving on to my first point, through the Electoral College, states have the power to elect the president, and removal of that power would remove some power of the states.
Article II, Section I, Clause II of the Constitution gives the states the requirement to have electors that will cast votes for the President and Vice President. Removal of the Electoral College would remove this power of the states to have electors, which would remove some of the organization that having the electors includes. Instead of having to count votes individually and each vote mattering, individual votes would just go to each elector and then the general result of the elector would likely be the vote of the elector. Also, removal of the Electoral College would also lessen the power of the smaller states and make their votes have less of a say than larger states. Since electors are generally based on population, votes from states with a lower population would not contribute as much to the election as votes from states with a large
population.
Moving on to my second point, an election without the Electoral College may have the same results as an election with the Electoral College in it. In general, the votes of an election with the Electoral College represent the opinion of the voters because the electors mostly vote who the people want. Although some exceptions exist, winning the popular vote should generally result in winning the election, because the electors represent their people and the amount of electors in states represents the population of the people. Also, the Electoral College should show fair results because although winning a lot of smaller states may not mean winning the election, whoever wins the election basically has to win most of the 50 “mini-elections” of each state (Richards).
In conclusion, do not abolish the Electoral College. The results of an election may or may not differ whether the Electoral College exists or not, so removal would just be a hassle. The state’s power to elect needs to be given as well, to give them power in the federal government.