POSC 143 July 10‚ 2012 Nicholas Boushee The “Electoral College” Archaic but Worth Keeping Every four years the United States enters the frenzy of election. Presidential candidates from multiple parties get ready for a campaign across the nation to gain popular support from both the delegates and the people. The presidential candidate not only has to win the popular vote‚ but also the majority votes in the Electoral College. The Electoral College serves to elect the president and the vice president
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The reasons for the electoral college to be abolished and replaced by another system.The electoral college was made several years after the founding of the U.S. This system was made because the delegate didn’t believe that the people would have enough information to choose the right person for president. What are the reasons for the electoral college to be abolished?The electoral college should be abolished because it’s undemocratic‚ the small state over presents and hurts third parties. One
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Why the Electoral College should not be preserved? The Constitutional Convention of 1787 gave birth to the system of the Electoral College. Electoral College system can be described as a system in which voters vote for electors on election day‚ who then cast their vote for candidate in their respective party. Our Founding Fathers described this system in Article II‚ section 1 of the Constitution. According to the Constitution‚ electors per state are equal to the number of seats each state holds
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The Electoral College should not be abolished‚ because if it is then the election process would collapse. The Electoral College was created because “normal citizens” were not deemed worth of voting because they would not know what or who they were voting for. The system is built in a way that is complicated‚ but it works‚ here is how it works: all US states and DC get one electoral vote for each of their US Senators and Representatives. The Representatives’ votes are determined by the decennial census
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Electoral College Should Be Abolished The Electoral College system was first established in the constitution by the Founding Fathers. The creation of Electoral College is to make sure every states is a viable participant in electing the president‚ in which giving the small population states a chance. In the day of election‚ people cast their votes for their candidate and who wins it determines the electors of the state. The system was great when it was first introduced because of how people before
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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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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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I like the Electoral College. I don’t want a most popular vote win election because I want the smaller states to still have a say‚ but‚ if America switches to most popular election‚ the way things are‚ might just get worse. There are some good reasons for a most popular election‚ and there are not good reasons for one too. I like the Electoral College a lot‚ and I would like the voting system to keep it that way. However‚ our founding fathers created the Electoral College‚ to create a better way
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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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Alexander Hamilton’s Electoral College and the Modern Election Alexander Hamilton’s Electoral College and the Modern Election Colin Campbell Prof. R Hurl TA: Matthew Lesch Tutorial: Thursday‚ 4:00 PM‚ UC 67) U. S. Government and Politics (POL 208 Y1Y) 1 November 2012 Alexander Hamilton’s Electoral College and the Modern Election When American ’s leaders assembled in Philadelphia in 1787‚ they originally had the goal of solving issues that had arisen from the Articles of Confederation
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