I feel that the electoral college system needs to be removed from our presidential elections. It causes more harm than good and‚ makes many voters not vote. There are pros and cons to the system but‚ there are too many cons for it to continue. Presidential candidates only care about big states “for the win”. Which makes voters think they’re small electoral college state is worthless. So in this essay‚ I will convince you and‚ tell you the truth behind the Electoral College system. A major
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The United States of America is one of the oldest democracies in the world‚ having continuously elected a head of state since George Washington’s election in 1792. (Barksdale 2014) However‚ the United States is particularly unique in one aspect of its democracy in that its citizens only indirectly elect the President. When presidential elections are held every four years‚ Americans head to the polls to officially choose the “electors” that will represent their respective states in the body that actually
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United States Electoral College is the institution that officially elects the President and Vice President of the United States every four years. The President and Vice President are not elected directly by the voters. Instead‚ they are elected by "electors" who are chosen by popular vote on a state-by-state basis. Criticisms of the electoral college- 1- statistical advantage to the small states 2- people only campaign in the big states 3- you can win popular vote but lose the electoral vote
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The American people have had a way of telling themselves that they are choosing the candidate to become the next president of the United States. Though while they feel like they are doing this‚ their vote really goes to an “elector”‚ only a small number of which each state gets. This method of election would make more sense if all states had a number of electors representative of the population‚ but that’s not how it is being run currently; there are 12 states in the U.S. which‚ if you can get popular
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fathers‚ met in Philadelphia‚ Pennsylvania to form a new system of government. Creating a functioning and fair way to elect public officials proved to be a difficult task for the founding fathers. They attempted to find a way to balance the power between individual states and the national government. This was eventually laid out in Article II‚ Section 1 of the Constitution‚ which made the Electoral College the form voting system the United States uses to elect the President and Vice President. There
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Democracy is a system of government that gives power to the people‚ whether directly or through elected representatives. The United States’s system is a democracy where the people’s votes‚ opinion‚ and action make a difference. Every four years we hold an election to select who will be our succeeding president. When our country was being developed we had a group of white‚ well-educated‚ and most part wealthy males who were known as the Framers. The Framers of the United States created a system called
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The Electoral College When the Founding Fathers congregated and drafted the government of the newly-formed America‚ they wanted a system that would not produce a tyrant‚ but could also produce a strong executive that would lead and consider the people. They created a system in which power could be checked and with hope‚ incorruptible. Distributing political power into the Legislative‚ Judicial‚ and Executive branches‚ and an elaborate process to elect leaders in each‚ the American Constitution was
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The electoral college has created a political divide in America. In this day and age the last thing America needs is a division among it’s people. With pressing issues like terrorism‚ immigration and equality‚ America’s people need to be united but the issue of the electoral college is one of the things preventing that. Today I will be focusing on the electoral college. One of the many problems with the electoral college is the lack of laws supporting the popular candidate which means the college
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According to the National Archive‚ The Electoral College process consists of the selection of the electors‚ the meeting of the electors where they vote for President and Vice President‚ and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress. The Electoral College was established within 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 The Electoral College although develop by the founding fathers
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If we would have discontinued the electoral college process to electoral our president and change it to base off popularity. The reason why we have the electoral college is to proportional representation which allows for the balancing in state votes to be counted. If we only have a national government based on a popular voting system‚ the cities in certain regions would overrule the rural and more isolated populations. Their voices would be not heard. The attention of many citizens is protected
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