Pros And Cons Of Abolishing The Electoral College

I believe that we should abolish the Electoral College, because it is an outdated and unfair method of voting for new Politicians. Firstly, if the Electoral College remains existent, we would be voting not for a politician, but for a slate of representatives who cast a vote for a candidate on behalf of us. These senators may be biased when they choose, therefore, it may be theoretically possible the popular vote winner may lose the presidency. Secondly, there is a higher chance of a “tie” (both candidates receive the same amounts of votes), which means it would be sent to the House of Representatives. In there, each state casts no more than a single vote, therefore, one vote from a certain state could equal 55 votes from another, once again

The Electoral College should not be abolished because most voters actually still are not informed today. How would you feel if a crazy president was decided because of all those uninformed voters who vote for the wrong person? Just imagine what could happen to yourself and the rest of America! The Electoral College also should not be abolished because it helps preserve our federalist government. It is proven that the Electoral College helps preserve our federalist government because it lets some of the smaller states count in elections too. The states can now actually make a difference in the outcome of the election. People do say that Electoral

The voting process in America appears straightforward, but it is a very complex, complicated system. The Electoral College is America’s current voting system. The Electoral College still serves its intended purpose, but with increasing political activity among Americans it has caused a need to reform this process. Research suggests that the Electoral College system should be amended because it poorly illustrates democracy, is outdated and the majority of Americans are in favor of abolishing the system.

The Electoral College is the system that elects the president and V.P. They should abolish the E.C. Electoral College because it gives more political power to smaller states than larger states. The map in Document A, “Electoral Votes by State”, shows how they take power from the bigger states and give it to the smaller ones. (“Electoral College Votes by State”, Document A). This piece of evidence shows that we should abolish the Electoral College because it shows how it gives power to smaller states by taking power from larger states.

The electoral college system is unnecessary at this point in time. When the electoral college system was thought up in the 1700s by the framers of the constitution, they believed that electors to represent the peoples’ vote would be more efficient since it was extremely difficult to get information to and from places quickly, meaning that citizens would be late on news. To to combat that, the framers created the electoral college system, a system where electors elected by a political party would represent the peoples’ vote, gather in Washington, and vote on their behalf. Because of the lack of technology, this method wasn’t a bad way to vote for presidents efficiently. But technology improved, negating the problem of Americans not knowing the news in Washington and concerning their candidates. Today, Americans have access to current and reliable news regarding their candidates and are generally up-to-date with politics. So with the technological advances present today, why do we still employ an electoral college to vote for our next president? There isn’t a pressing reason to keep it.

The Electoral College has been in place for hundreds of years and it has sparked the debate of if it should be abolished from presidential elections. I believe that the Electoral College should be abolished because it gives unfair treatment to low populated states, it gives Congress more power in the election, and causes unfair election results. Document A shows that California and Texas have the most electoral votes with fifty five and thirty eight respectively but lower populated states such as Delaware and Alaska have only three electoral votes. If you split the map of the United States into four sections using horizontal and vertical lines, one can draw the conclusion that candidates running for president do not have to go to certain sections of the United States due to their low electoral votes and

The Electoral College: a system that the U.S. has used over the years to choose representatives and is a compromise between election by a vote. The Electoral College should not be abolished for three reasons. These reasons are: The system helps candidates who struggle with winning the Popular Vote; with Electoral Votes, it gives the little states enough power and votes, and if we abolish The Electoral College, we weaken the Political Two-Party-System. And if not weakened, then destroyed. These reasons will show that the Electoral College should not be abolished, and should be kept.

A very controversial topic is whether the electoral college of the United States of America should be dissolved. The recent 2016 presidential election has intensified the debate. The electoral college is an old system that was created out of a fear of the country being subject to mob rule. The founding fathers were wrong. America is not a true democracy if the electoral college still exists. It should be removed because it makes the voices of citizens meaningless.

First, The Electoral College prevents majority rule and should not be abolished. ”The Electoral College gives states with small populations a measure of protection against domination by states with large populations. It levels the political playing field a bit” (Williams, Walter E.). It is said that Hillary Clinton won popular vote majority. Therefore, if the nation were not encumbered with outdated electoral college. Clinton, instead of our present one, would be the next president of the United States. In 2000, Al Gore won the popular vote just as Clinton supposedly did. Such outcomes have led to calls to desert the Constitution's Article two provisions for the state electors to select presidents. Before the U.S. deserts the Electoral College, let's consider the purpose it performs. According to 2013 Census Data, Nine states- California, Texas, New York, Florida, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Georgia, and Michigan have populations

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

Thesis: The Electoral College is unfair and should be abolished because of the “winner takes all rule,” the chance that a president cannot have the support of the majority of the voters, and candidates would campaign equally in every state.

However the system can be so deranged that some small states are given up to 3 times as many electors as they should get if they were handed out proportionate to their population (jdallicorn51). In today 's politically charged climate, many questions have been raised about the viability and sustainability of such an archaic system. The electoral college should be abolished in the United States because it causes unnecessary confusion, reduces the value of a vote, and the existence of it is inherently against the principles of democracy our country was founded upon.

If you think on Election Day, you voted for the next president of the United States, sorry to tell you but you were mislead like the millions of Americans whom had believed their votes would decide next president. The United States has a unique process in electing the next president. In order to win the white house, a national election must be held every four years. American citizens whom are registered to vote do not directly vote for their favored candidate, but vote for presidential electors, known as the electoral college, to vote for the candidate. In the election, each state has an assigned number of electoral votes which vary on the number of residing citizens, in the respective state. For example, Texas has thirty-eight electoral votes to Rhode Island’s four. The presidential candidate must gain, at least, two-hundred-and-seventy votes from an electoral college to win the election.

The Electoral College is a controversial voting system that has been part of the United States election process since it’s very beginning. Created during the constitutional convention of 1787, the Electoral College was intended to increase the voting power of states with a low population. A solely popular vote was thought to ignore the minority of smaller states (Jost and Giroux). In response, the electoral college would involve a group of elected state representatives that would decrease the influence of populous states over smaller states. This system is still implemented today and continues to hold similar workings to that of the past. The number of electors granted to each state is the sum of senators and House representatives for that state (Jost and Giroux). Only senators, representatives, and anyone holding an office of trust or profit are prohibited from becoming electors. On election day, US citizens vote for their Electoral College representatives, and those chosen become leading players in the presidential election. This system settled disputes between states in the past and has survived for over two centuries; however, some critics now find the system to be flawed and out of date (Jost & Giroux).

Fellow senators, the electoral college should be eliminated as the primary method of determining our president and Vice President for three key reasons. First, because the electoral college is an archaic method that does properly represent today's day and age. Second, because the electoral college gives too much power to swing states over the rest of the states and finally, because electoral college can clash with the popular vote which then leads to the wrong person being elected as president and Vice President.