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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The Electoral College is made of 538 electors. The Founding Fathers made this process‚ so they could balance the votes. It was balanced by the popular vote from citizens‚ and the Congress. There are specific numbers of electors based on the number of members of its congressional delegation. There is one special rule and it is the twenty-third amendment. It tells us that the District of Columbia gets to be treated like a state‚ so it is easier for the Electoral College. When a candidate is running
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The electoral college is a group of people chosen by every state who officially elects the president and vice president of the united states. The electoral college started with the constitution of the united states‚ it cited how many electors each state is able to have. Since 1964 the has been 538 electors in each presidential election. The number of electors is equivalent to the entire membership of the united states congress‚ 435 representatives‚ 100 senators‚ and 3 electors from the district of
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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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the Electoral College and Go to a Popular Vote? The American way of electing the highest office in our country is hard to explain on a good day to a fellow American‚ let alone to a non-American. The question that often follows an explanation of the Electoral College is something like: why doesn’t the United States just adopt a popular vote? Through the course of this paper I will talk about first the history of the Electoral College. Secondly‚ I will discuss the negatives of the Electoral College
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dictionary defines the Electoral College as a body of electors chosen by the voters in each state to elect the President and Vice President of the United States. The founding fathers of our nation ingrained it in the Constitution as a compromise between the election of the President by a vote in Congress and by a popular vote of adept citizens. Research will show the impact and importance the Electoral College has on the political system in the United States. The process of the Electoral College consists
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faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed‚” said Blanche Lincoln. This statement is especially true today due to the lack of information on why we have the electoral college. On November 8th 2017‚ Donald J. Trump clinched the presidency while not gaining the vote of the majority of the country. This is the second time in the last twenty years‚ and the fifth time in our history. So why should the electoral college stay in place? The electoral college is an effective system to find out
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the concept that all citizens should have equal say in the government and the way it is run. The Electoral College ruins the voting and creates an unfair system that is not equal. It destroys the fundamental part of democracy that gives everyone a fair right to vote. The Electoral College raises the question "Is the United States a Democracy?". With the Electoral College‚ it is a winner take all system which makes some voter feel that their vote is practically useless. The founding fathers believed
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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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The electoral college has created a political divide in America. In this day and age the last thing America needs is a division among it’s people. With pressing issues like terrorism‚ immigration and equality‚ America’s people need to be united but the issue of the electoral college is one of the things preventing that. Today I will be focusing on the electoral college. One of the many problems with the electoral college is the lack of laws supporting the popular candidate which means the college
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