The Electoral College System

The American Society grants every citizen of legal age the right to vote in elections. The Electoral College provides electoral votes to candidates based popular votes. The Electoral College is unfair to popular vote as it is an indirect system of voting where citizens are not directly voting for the President. This system grants 538 electors to become the voice of 319 million.
The Electoral College was established during the Constitutional Convention of 1787. The Electoral College is a “System established by the Constitution to elect the president.” This system was established because the Constitutional framers did not think people had enough information or wisdom to elect the next president. Each state would select individuals known as electors
The Electoral College discourages voter turn in the General Election. Voters feel that their vote has no effect in the election. Presidential candidates go to “swing states” and urge only those voters to come out and vote for them. Candidates will focus their time, effort, and money on only certain swing states as opposed to states in general. The candidate wins all of the electoral votes when the candidate has a larger popular vote in the General Election. The Electoral College allows the candidates to primarily focus on “swing states.” Swing states are known to vote either Democrat or Republican during the General Election causing them to receive a lot more attention from the candidates as the candidates hopes to obtain the electoral votes from the state. The Electoral College system favors the smaller and less populated states as it takes away electoral votes from larger states and grants them to the small states. It improves that small states’ electoral
The election of 1876 was an early example of a voting controversy, in which difficulty in counting and tabulating votes led to difficulty in determining who was the victorious candidate in the election. This election was between Rutherford B. Hayes running against Samuel J. Tilden. The reason for the controversy was the result of errors in three state submissions of results concerning the election. The election of 1888 was noteworthy only because the candidate who won the election did not win the popular vote, which is an oft-considered consequence of the Electoral College system. The most recent controversial election was the election of 2000. The election of 2000 was an incredibly contentious election, in which the results were debated and argued over for quite a long time before it was finally resolved. George W. Bush won the election, as a result, even though Bush did not won the popular