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Should Electoral College Be Abolished Research Paper

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The Electoral College should be abolished because it overpowers the people’s vote. As stated in the Document G in the presidential election in 1876, 1888, and 2000 the winner of the election didn’t actually win the popular vote. For example, in the presidential election in 1888, Hayes got 5,443,892 popular votes and 233 electoral votes. Tilden got 5, 534,488 electoral votes and 168 electoral votes. Given this evidence, the popular vote (the people’s votes) doesn’t actually count towards the actual election. The Electoral College is what actually decides the election. Therefore, if the majority of the people vote for a president, the president might not be chosen all because only the Electoral College votes count not the people’s. Furthermore, the population of Illinois was more than the population of the 12 states and the District of Columbia combined, yet Illinios only had 20 Electoral votes while those 12 states and the District of Columbia had 44 electoral votes, according to Document D. This proves that the Electoral College doesn’t make everyone’s vote equal. The votes of the people who live in the 12 states and …show more content…

To prove this claim, some states with a smaller population (the 12 states and the District of Columbia) had more electoral votes than the states with a larger population (Illinois), as stated before. This causes the power among the states to be uneven. The Founding Fathers created a system that allows the citizens to help control the government. But how can they if the Electoral College blocks all the people’s votes? The only thing standing in the way of the people having a say in their country, is the Electoral College. Therefore, the Electoral College must be

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