The electoral college in america should be abolished because it has major flaws‚ supports political inequality‚ and doesn’t support third party candidates. On top of the flaws that already exist in the electoral college the biggest flaws is what happens when there is a tie. In the case of a tie the decision of who gets to be president is cast in the House of Representatives. This would mean that every states essentially has one vote making “the single representative from Wyoming‚ representing 500
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POL 201 Week 5 DQ 2 Voting and Turnout http://homeworkmonster.com/downloads/pol-201-week-5-dq-2-voting-turnout/ POL 201 Week 5 DQ 2 Voting and Turnout Voting and Turnout. The U.S. has one of the lowest voter turnout rates among modern democratic political systems. One study ranks the U.S. 120th on a list of 169 nations compared on voter turnout (Pintor‚ Gratschew‚ & Sullivan‚ 2002). While during the last decade many initiatives have been undertaken to increase voter participation‚ concerns about
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Should The Electoral College Be Abolished? In the year 1787‚ the new nation of the United States set up an electoral system in order to ensure that the federal elections that would soon be taking place in the young country would go over smoothly… This system was the Electoral College… If this system sounds familiar‚ it’s because the Electoral College is still in service today‚ currently acting as the system which selects the American President and Vice President‚ or to be more broad‚ the Executive
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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 Ever Changing Electoral-College When the United States first gained its independence‚ a set of laws and regulations had to be formulated in order to keep the country running. The Founding fathers came up with these laws and regulations in a meeting now known as the constitutional convention. In this convention‚ the method for electing the president and vice president was created and it was called the Electoral College. The Electoral College is a method the United States uses to vote for the 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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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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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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rights of the __________. a. popular consent b. region c. individual d. community e. government 4. What is the idea that a just government must derive its powers from the people it governs called? a. equality b. popular consent c. electoral politics d. equality of opportunity e. statism 5. Governance according to the expressed preferences of the majority is known as which of the following? a. statism b. tyranny of the majority c. individual rights d. majority rule e. plurality
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