Should The Electoral College Be Eliminated

I believe that we should abolish the Electoral College, because it is an outdated and unfair method of voting for new Politicians.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

I believe that the United States should abolish the Electoral College. One reason the Electoral College should be abolished is it makes it look like candidates win by a lot more than they actually do, because of the electoral votes. Document B proves that the Electoral College should be abolished because it provides two different elections pie charts, comparing the popular vote and the electoral vote. In the first elections pie chart, the election is between Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, and John B. Anderson. For the popular votes Ronald Reagan gets 50.7 % of the votes, Jimmy Carter gets 41% of the votes, and John B. Anderson gets 6.6% of the votes. It is easily seen that Ronald Reagan had won the popular vote but by very little in comparison to Jimmy Carter. Then in the pie chart for the electoral vote, Ronald Reagan had 91% of the votes, Jimmy Carter had 9% of the votes, and John B. Anderson had 0% of the

What would you do if you didn't have a say in who runs America and how it is ran. What if you were promised freedom, and told that you had a government ran by the people but you didn’t get any input in the decisions? The direct popular vote doesn’t give the smaller parties a chance, but the electoral college does. Some people believe that the electoral college should be abolished; however, it gives people in rural communities a stronger voice, it allows the President a mandate to meet people’s needs in every state, and it reflects the political opinions of more Americans. Therefore, America should keep the electoral college.

There are several people within the states that have the power to chose the President. There is a system to help it is called Electoral College. People would vote as normal and then all the votes for the state would determine the states candidate. This can help or hurt the the people for the opposing candidate. There need to be changes to the Electoral College and how many electoral votes are determined.

The electoral college works as a winner-takes-all system, when a president wins a simple majority in a state, they get all electoral votes from that state. Then, whichever candidate gets the most electoral votes wins the election. The electoral college should be abolished because it makes popular vote not matter,

The majority of Americans believe the Electoral College should be gotten rid of altogether. Liz Carbone, a political science major has done research on business and government, and also on the Electoral College says, the main controversy

I agree with Hayes, the electoral college is outdated. There is no longer a necessary role for it in the American Electoral System. The Electoral College was created since the government felt that the people would not know about the issues that they were voting on. Instead, they decided that the people would vote for a select group of candidates. The group of people that are being voted for are the caucus.The caucus member that wins their district casts their districts vote in favor of the candidate that won the majority vote .

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.

Your vote should mainly matter! Yes, the electoral college should be abolished. The delegates did not believe the president should be chosen by a direct population vote (of the people). They didn’t trust voters would have enough information to make a good choice. The Electoral College is where the president and vice president are chosen indirectly. This system is where all states and the District of Columbia get one electoral vote for each of their US senators and representatives. Also, each state has a slate of electors for each presidential candidate. Another way this system works is by winner-take all method. The winner-take all method is where whichever candidate wins the most votes in the state, wins the state electoral votes. Lastly a candidate must receive a majority (one more than a half) of the electoral votes to be declared president. That is how everything goes in the electoral college. The electoral college should be abolished because 12 states and D.C. total have double the amount of electoral votes but less people than Illinois. Also, the winner of the 1876 presidential election isn’t what people wanted, it was based on the number of electoral votes. Another reason the electoral college should be abolished is that the states with the same representatives dont have the same number of voters. All these issues that continue to happen, need to be resolved by getting rid of this system.

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.

The U.S. should also abolish the Electoral College because it depresses voter turnout. For example, during the recent presidential campaign the candidates focused most of their time on what so-called "battleground states," states in which there

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,

Whether you drowned in the text in your final year of school, or saw it in that one ‘Simpsons’ episode in 2009, everyone at least, kind of knows the story of that curse’d Scottish Play. Yet, what you might not know is that the hardest part to nail about the play isn’t the language, but instead, the complex themes that run through the story. Throughout this tragic tale, countless characters succumb to the pressures of maintaining their macho-man status, while others use their new-found ‘manliness’ to accomplish unbelievable things. Masculine ambition is a theme that underpins the entire plot and is the unfortunate downfall of many great (and not so great) characters.

Democratic theorist, Robert Dahl once said, “…every member must have an equal and effective opportunity to vote, and all votes must be counted as equal.” This quote greatly summarizes what the Electoral College system means; every person in the United States is guaranteed one vote. Everyone should have an equal opportunity to elect who serves in the government, and we are given that opportunity through this system. This is what the Founding Fathers came up with in order to solve the problems they faced over 200 years ago. However, some have opposed this system is not fit for this democracy, and argue that other systems would work more fairly. On the contrary, I strongly believe that the Electoral College system should be kept because it is the fairest way to elect the President.