However few people fully understand just how that election process works. We have all heard of the electoral college but few of us fully understand it or its impact on our democratic process. This election process divides our nation into two parties and directly impacts everything from campaigning to voter turnout and can even affect the outcome of the election altogether. How The Electoral College Came To Be The process by which we elect our executive branch has been the same since the Constitution
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the case of the Electoral College apparently the majority doesn’t count. The Electoral College was established in Article II of the Constitution and amended by the 12th Amendment in 1804. Each state gets a number of electors equal to its number of members in the U.S. House of Representatives plus one for each of its two U.S. Senators creating a total of 538 electoral votes. A majority winner must receive 270 votes to be elected. With a few minor exceptions‚ the Electoral College gives all of the
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There are other ways to satisfy the majority rather than abolishing the Electoral College. Lawyer Jeanne Kempthorne states some of the issues seen with the EC. One being that‚ “[the election] can easily result in an outcome that conflicts with the will of the people‚ whereby a candidate who loses the popular election nonetheless becomes president‚ as occurred in 2000 and almost occurred in 2004. This is a serious‚ recurring problem that afflicts both parties” (Jones 1). Robert Hall‚ a professor at
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The electoral college is a group of people that vote based on the popular vote in their district. The people who are in the electoral college can be regular people who are picked by the state legislature. How many points a state get is based on that state’s population. The points are the number of electoral college representatives who can vote for whoever they want. When the state is won all the points go to the person who won that state. So should the electoral college stay the same‚ or changed
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president‚ instead they choose group of electors‚ selected on a state by state basis who will support and cast their vote for the party’s president candidate that they support which form electoral college. This paper will explain and analyze the voting process in US‚ mainly focusing on the Electoral College. The Elector College is the process use in the
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The Electoral College was established in 1787 as a compromise between having Congress select the next President of the United States‚ and having a direct democracy in which the popular vote selected the next President. The system has worked for over 200 years‚ so why change it now? Proponents for the Electoral College to remain the same argue that the Electoral College contributes to the cohesiveness of the country by requiring a distribution of popular support to be elected president‚ enhances
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Is the Electoral College a Democratic Institution? Ever since the Constitutional Convention of 1787 there has been constant debate as to whether or not our system of voting‚ the Electoral College‚ is a democratic institution. After all‚ how can an electoral system that grants the power of the presidency to the candidate who did not win the popular vote claim to be truly democratic. This debate over whether or not we should dispense of the Electoral College in favor of a system based on a purely
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unconstitutional? The Electoral College is‚ and there are many more reasons it is a flawed system of electing our president. As it stands today‚ electoral votes only matter in a few states and some states do not matter in the grand scheme of things. Besides that‚ we have recently had a president elected who did not win the popular vote. This president has made a number of controversial decisions‚ and many call for him to be impeached for a large variety of reasons. The Electoral College elected such a man
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The Electoral College Before the tense and puzzling presidential election in 2000‚ many people thought the Electoral College was a place of education. Most people now know that it is not a place‚ but a process of how the President of the United States of America is elected. The Presidential Election of 2000 helped inform Americans that our President is not elected by the popular vote‚ but through the process of the Electoral College (Ballaro). The Electoral College has existed since the beginning
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When voting for a President and Vice President‚ Americans are actually voting for presidential electors‚ generally known as the electoral college. It is these electors who actually vote to elect the chief executive. Each state has a specific number of electors equal to the combined total of the state’s Senate and House of Representatives delegations. There is currently a combined total of 538 electors. It is relatively easy to become an elector because “Aside from Members of Congress‚ and persons
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