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Should Electoral College Be Abolished

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The Electoral College system was initially set up to help create a more efficient way of electing government officials. In the 1700’s the media coverage was not as broad as it is today, so many people would be without knowledge of the candidates or even what is going on in that election. With the vast coverage of media all around the country, people are more informed and better educated than ever before. This coverage of media makes the sole purpose of the Electoral College irrelevant and it should be taken out of our system today. The Electoral College system was initially formed based off of the ideas of the Roman Empire. In that system the men would be split up into groups of 100 in which “only one vote (was cast) either in favor or against proposals submitted to them by the Roman Senate” (Kimberling p.9). This system translated to the Electoral College system, the main difference is …show more content…

In today’s day and age the general population is not afraid of a tyrant figure coming into office. We are so used to being a free state that it almost seems impossible for this to happen, the media would hopefully expose any candidate that has a dictator like mentality. It also adds an unfair aspect to the election, with the winner takes all system that many states have. This system allows one state to use all of its elector votes on one candidate who got the majority of the votes instead of going by population. This had a major impact on the 2000 presidential election, when George Bush “lost the popular vote but captured enough states to win the electoral vote” (Digital History p.2). Bush was able to do this by winning some larger states with a slight margin, and then getting all of the electoral votes with the winner takes all system. “The current system disenfranchises some presidential voters in winner-take-all states and should thus be reformed”

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