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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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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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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defines the Electoral College as a body of electors chosen by the voters in each state to elect the President and Vice President of the United States. The founding fathers of our nation ingrained it in the Constitution as a compromise between the election of the President by a vote in Congress and by a popular vote of adept citizens. Research will show the impact and importance the Electoral College has on the political system in the United States. The process of the Electoral College consists of
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the Electoral College and Go to a Popular Vote? The American way of electing the highest office in our country is hard to explain on a good day to a fellow American‚ let alone to a non-American. The question that often follows an explanation of the Electoral College is something like: why doesn’t the United States just adopt a popular vote? Through the course of this paper I will talk about first the history of the Electoral College. Secondly‚ I will discuss the negatives of the Electoral College
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Electoral College The United States of America uses the Electoral College voting mechanism created by the constitution‚ in order to elect the president and vice president. The purpose of the Electoral College is to give all states an equal vote‚ no matter how small or big the state is. The system is not flawless‚ although it has many positives. Some people feel the system is a fail‚ while others feel it is efficient for the American government. The Electoral College is a system made up of 538 electors
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we really don’t have a say so. We‚ in reality‚ just vote for State Electors who then hold the electoral vote to vote for the next president. This is an unjust way to do this in a “democratic” country. I do not believe the electoral college is an equitable way to elect the President of United States. Alexander Hamilton‚ one of the Founding Fathers of United States‚ had agreed with the electoral college. He says‚ “It was equally desirable‚ that the immediate election should be made by men most capable
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towards the electoral college along with the pros and cons leading to my choice. I will explain why the people should want to keep it along with why some don’t want to trust it. I will also explain what will happen if it goes away because we know what it does. The Electoral College always has it’s print on the elections and more importantly on the very close elections. It has done it’s job the over 200 plus years and throughout fifty presidential elections. So the electoral college is promising
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The Electoral College consists of 538 electors who ultimately select which presidential candidate will become president. The president has multiple responsibilities and requirements. Therefore‚ he/she must be elected with something effective. The Electoral College is a system that is favored by some‚ but disliked by some as well. I think the Electoral College is a great concept and no changes should be made to it. One argument in favor of the Electoral College I found most convincing was that it
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leading up to and after the 2016 presidential election I have been thinking about the impact effect of the electoral college. The electoral college is made up of the number of state members in the house of representatives and the number of state members in the senate. In Kansas we have 6 electoral college votes because we have 4 house of representatives and 2 senators. The electoral college was originally designed so each state could choose representatives to cast their states vote in the presidential
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