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 vote from 11 of these 12 states‚ you can still win the whole election and become the next president‚ even if you don’t get a single vote from any of the other 39 states. This is in no way fair to the American people who truly care about who takes office. Though the Electoral College was created to represent the will of the American people‚ it is
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States created a system called the Electoral College. The Electoral College is a group of representatives of each state who cast the final ballots that actually elect the president. In 1787‚ the Electoral College was created by the Framers who were also called the “Founding
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countries for giving the concept that all citizens should have equal say in the government and the way it is run. The Electoral College ruins the voting and creates an unfair system that is not equal. It destroys the fundamental part of democracy that gives everyone a fair right to vote. The Electoral College raises the question "Is the United States a Democracy?". With the Electoral College‚ it is a winner take all system which makes some voter feel that their vote is practically useless. The founding
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The electoral college‚ the body that chooses the president. The electoral college is the group of people chosen to represent what the citizens want. After the people vote it is up to the electoral college to cast their vote. Their votes are also called electoral votes. The electoral college is a fair way to vote but it should be changed in certain places. The way the population is divides to get each electoral vote might not be the best way to go about dividing things up but this works. As seen
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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 4-
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Sam Thompson 1/12/14 ‘The electoral college should be replaced by a national popular vote.’ Discuss. (45 marks) The Electoral College is a political institution that every 4 years is indirectly given the task of electing the president and vice-president of the United States of America into power. The idea behind the Electoral College is that it would give power to people that know politics so that they can make an informed decision on who should be president. This institution is a staple of the
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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
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Analyze criticism of the "Electoral College" system and the alleged advantages and disadvantages of various reform proposals. The Electoral College is a system in which the individual voter does not actually vote directly for the president. When a person votes they are voting for an elector that has pledged their vote or allegiance to the running party. The Framers realized that without widespread communications available at the time and with other varying factors an "each vote counts" or "the
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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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The United States Electoral College is an integral part of America’s political system. In 1787‚ the delegates of the Constitutional Convention decided on the creation of the Electoral College‚ or a system under which a body is elected with the expressed purpose of itself electing a higher body. The College was established by Article Two‚ Section One of the United States Constitution. (Lesson 2: Political Participation‚ n.d.) The Founding Fathers wished to provide the people of each state the ability
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