Electoral College Literature Review

The Electoral College is an excuse of the electoral process, proving itself to be undemocratic, false in representation, and harmful to third-parties. Therefore, the Electoral College should be abolished, and the process should rely on the popular vote to have the leading judgement in the election procedure for a new president. The Electoral College has proven that a candidate may not need to win the popular vote of the people of the nation in order to win the presidential election. But first, beforehand, let me introduce the system in which the Electoral Process is based upon. The Electoral Process is the government’s created system of indirect voting in order to elect the nation’s president.

America should abolish the electoral college voting system because it is an outdated and undemocratic system. This claim addresses an issue of policy because it calls for necessary action by the Supreme Court to abolish America’s current voting system. The claim urges America to take action and reevaluate if the electoral college is a voting system that should continue to be in use. An issue of substantiation is slightly underlying within this claim as well; if American citizens constantly feel as if their vote doesn’t matter, nor make a difference due to the way the electoral college works, a voter depression turnout may continue to increase, and an apathetic attitude will continue to emerge towards the elections.

In the “Point: Abolishing the Electoral College,” Benjamin Bolinger, a licensed lawyer who can practice law in Colorado and Pennsylvania, argues that the Electoral College needs to be abolished for the American democracy. Bolinger examines that some states with a little population have large number of electoral college compare to those states with larger populations. He believes that the Electoral College damages the value of democratic government by leaving

America has been acknowledged as being one of the world’s leading democracies, but to continue implementing the use of the Electoral College creates some distortion to that title. The out of date system does not accurately portray democracy. Theoretically, a democracy is government system that is ruled by the people. In reality, an individual’s vote may not matter depending on the state they reside in. Robert Dahl, a Democratic Theorist stated, “every member must have an equal and effective opportunity to vote, and all votes must be counted as equal.” Political equality is important to the distribution of power. Even if a person is wealthy and of power their vote should be counted the same as someone in poverty.

For as long as American citizens can remember the assigned method of election for the United States presidency would be the use of the Electoral College. The Electoral College is a process not a place or institution, in this essay I will briefly describe the Electoral College process as well as describe some pros and cons of the electoral college and lastly, I will attempt to answer the controversial question, if you could improve the electoral college, would I choose to abolish or reform the system?

The Electoral College is the system established by the Founding Fathers to select the President of the United States. It is important that Americans have a fundamental knowledge of this system, and the obstacles overcame in its development. There were many obstacles faced by the Founding Fathers while constructing the government. America was comprised of 13 states that wanted to protect their individual rights and leery of a strong centralized government. The nation’s population lay across a vast area with limited communication capabilities. In addition, the Founders believed that a true gentleman should not campaign for office. “The office should seek the man, the man should not seek the office” was the saying. They challenged themselves

Every time there is an election in the United States, the debate of Electoral College always heats up, and suddenly everybody seems to know about or at least they are interested in learning about it. The Electoral College is firmly established under the United States Constitution to elect the president and the vice president of the United States indirectly. A slate of “electors” are chosen from each state, and they are the ones responsible for voting for president in the general elections depending on which party the candidate is vying with. From this statement, what it means is that one does not choose his or her preferred leader directly and this has made many suggestions that the Electoral College is not a true representation of democracy. This paper will look at the strongest arguments for and against the Electoral College, analyze whether the current Electoral College should be re-engineered or scrapped in favor of direct vote and finally determine if the Electoral College is consistent or contrary to democratic principle.

The United States, well known for its democracy, holds elections every four years to elect its President. Every American citizen over the age of 18 has a right to cast a vote in the presidential election. The voting process, although it seems easy and straightforward, can be very complicated. In the 2000 election, Al Gore captured the majority of votes, but George Bush won. The reason for this strange outcome and why Al Gore lost was because of the Electoral College. The Electoral College is voting system where different states are given a certain amount of votes in the election, and which ever candidate wins a state, is given that state’s votes. The Electoral College is out of date, and should be replaced by the Popular Vote system,

Despite the Electoral College system being founded by the founding fathers in America and being there as long as the Constitution exists, many people still do not have sufficient knowledge on how it works. The Electoral College does not provide honest presidential elections rather it has the potential to undo the will of people at any point from the selection of electors to the vote tallying in Congress (Shaw, 3). Electoral College in the United States has played a major role in depressing the voter's turnout. Every State is given an equal number of electoral votes despite the population and in turn, the system has put in place no measure to encourage the voters to take part in the elections. Besides, the system distorts

Every day we make a decision, to catch a cab or ride a bike, eat that doughnut or eat healthy. Each of our decisions are based on our behavior, built up over periods of time. Most people have behaviors that they are proud of and want to keep, for instance a person might be good at setting aside money for the future and will want to keep that behavior as long as possible. That being said, every person will have behaviors they are not proud of and will want to change. That is where the Transtheoretical Model of Change comes into play, listing out the five stages of precisely what it takes to change your behavior. The five steps in the transtheoretical model of change are; precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance. In this paper I will walk you through two possible applications of this theory, one of them is my behavior of procrastination, and the second being a friend of mine's inability to get up in the morning.

A symbol often used to represent an idea or a concept of value. In the novel The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses symbols that changes throughout the novel, particularly his characters who all serve a symbolic purpose. Hawthorne uses themes of sin to demonstrate how unavoidable sin is and shows the idea that sin results in suffering. The Scarlet Letter contains many symbols, including Pearl, The Scarlet Letter, The Forest and the roses bush, which all contribute to the main theme of sin and its effects on the characters.

In this country, we hold elections every four years to select the president. The founding fathers of our country established the electoral college to give the original thirteen states a fair voice in the election process. This country electoral called the electoral college into question on more the one occasion. In the most recent election, President-elect Donald Trump won the electoral vote over Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote. This election has sent the country into an uproar and citizens of the United States are now challenging the legitimacy of the electoral college process. This paper will examine whether this process is reliable and valid when choosing the leadership of this country.

I will first provide a description of the Electoral College and offer justifications as to why it was conceived by the Founding Fathers. Next, I will present major arguments from the critics of

The Electoral College is almost an archaic system, however, we cannot blame our nation’s founders for the flaws we find today. The US constitution was written in a time when political parties did not yet exist. In the conflicting party’s absence, the largest division between Americans was small states against large states (5 – 11 para). The small states vouched for congress to elect our president so that they would receive enough representation that they

During the 2016 Presidential election, candidate Donald Trump lost the National popular vote to candidate Hillary Clinton by almost 3 million votes, but he still won the Presidential election by getting 304 Electoral College votes. (The Electoral College: Top 3… 1)The result of the 2016 Presidential election reflects a significant defect of the Electoral College System that the support from majority American population could not promise the presidency to a candidate. In fact, the it is not the first time that citizens received an unexpected election result; prior the 2016 Election, there are total four times in US history when candidate won the popular vote without won the presidency: 1824 (John Quincy Adams VS Andrew Jackson), 1876 (Rutherford B. Hayes VS Samuel Tilden), 1888 (Benjamin Harrison VS Grover Cleveland), and 2000 (George W. Bush VS Al Gore) (The Electoral College: Top 3… 1). For United States, a country advocating democracy, the voting system of Electoral College is a less ideal way to ensure the citizens’ right to elect the president they prefer. The government should change the Electoral College for its inefficient, unfairness and obsoleteness