The Electoral College is a collection of 538 votes that will determine who the next President is. This 538 is the same number of Senators and representatives in Congress combined. The 538 votes are devided among the states based on the population of each state‚ but each state‚ including District of Colombia‚ is given three votes to start. The people of each state do not vote directly for the President‚ rather they vote to tell the electors who to vote for. (New York Times‚ 2008) “There are a total
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pivotal aspect of exercising the freedoms the Constitution grants. The Electoral College is the primary process by which the United States presidents are elected. This process seems counterintuitive‚ as the leaders are not chosen directly by the citizens. As a result‚ there can be various discrepancies when comparing the popular vote of the people with the result that the Electoral College produces. Therefore‚ the Electoral College should be reformed based on the premise that it grants disproportionate
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Are You Being Cheated? Over the years the Electoral College has been proven to be outdated. People wonder constantly if their vote counts anymore or‚ if this method is affective any longer. There are three main reasons why the Electoral College is outdated and should be abolished. The presidential candidates only pay attention to the states with the most Electoral votes‚ we also have a larger and more educated population then when this was originally set up‚ lastly it does not seem as if your vote
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The Electoral College‚ established by the founding fathers in the United States Constitution‚ is a process whereby a body of electors chosen by voters in each state cast a formal vote to elect the president and vice president. Among many other things established within the Constitution‚ the Electoral College requires extensive reform. The Constitution itself was merely a framework for the United States government and did not take into account the extent to which society would change between 1787
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Proposed Amendment to Abolish Electoral College The Framers created the Electoral College in the Constitution over 300 years ago‚ and the system exists even today. The Electoral College’s purposes include giving power to small states and to give people the indirect power to elect the president‚ so that the wrong candidate would not win the election. However‚ many people contemplate whether the Electoral College should still exist. One major reason why includes the most recent presidential election
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Electoral college is a process that is set up by our founding fathers in the constitution; it is a “compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens” (U.S Electoral College). Electoral college is an example of indirect democracy; therefore‚ we do not choose our president directly. Thus‚ electoral college is not democratic. Electoral college is a group of people appointed by each state‚ who formally elect the
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Electoral Process: Does Majority Actually Rule? Imagine an election won by the loser; an election where the person that received less votes than their opponent won. Barbara Boxer said: Voting is the cornerstone of democracy. We have had men and women through the decades die for the right to vote. Many generations of Americans of every gender‚ race‚ religion‚ and ideology have marched and struggled and died to secure this fundamental freedom. Yet we have a system where the winner can lose (qtd. in
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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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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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is because it allows for the possibility that one candidate would win the majority of the popular vote across the nation‚ and still be able to lose the election if another candidate wins the electoral vote. This has happened on more than one occasion‚ most recently in 2000 when George W. Bush won the electoral vote and became President despite the fact that his opponent‚ Al Gore‚ won the popular vote. The world was shocked when Bush was named winner of the U.S. presidential election‚ even after more
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