Many people argue that the Electoral College is an outdated system. After all‚ many things have changed in the last two centuries. For one‚ technology is much more advanced now than it was two hundred years ago. With the internet and television‚ we can now learn everything about a candidate regardless of where the come from in the nation. It is feasible to have direct election of a president because of these improved methods of communication and the evolution of technology in general. There are
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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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to account for the national interest (Monroe 2016). Thus they came up with a system called the electoral college. The electoral college is an institution that elects the president and the vice president of the U.S. every four years. This system is a highly complicated institution where each state selects electors. Electors are delegates that have a well known judgement of
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Electoral College Reform The Electoral College system is the process of a president and vice-president election into office. This is a compromise established by our founding fathers in the United States Constitution. “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years‚ and‚ together with the Vice-President chosen for the same Term‚ be elected‚ as follows: Each State shall appoint‚ in such Manner as
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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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The American presidential electoral system consists of five different stages‚ the main two being the primaries and the Electoral College. Although the Electoral College has been used since the founding fathers wrote the constitution‚ meaning there are many strengths in the system‚ the weaknesses of the system outweigh substantially the strengths. Some of these being‚ the candidate without the popular vote can be elected as president. For example in the 2000 presidential elections‚ George Bush won
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Electoral College is a type of configuration process electors’ choice. It’s a meeting of the electors that they carried out the selection of the president and vice president. This process also includes the calculation by the electoral council. The founding father of the Electoral College was established within the Constitution as a compromise between election of the president by election in accordance with the popular vote in a parliamentary vote‚ as well as qualification of citizens. The establishments
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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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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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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 a failure at reflecting that
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