The electoral system is “regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the candidate who receives the most popular votes the winner” as pointed out in the article In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our desired method of choosing the president. The United States was founded upon the ideologies of freedom and representative government, which begs the question, why would we have a non-democratic method to decide the most powerful person in a nation where democracy remains as a provocative principle? The Electoral College is not a true democratic way to choose a president as a popular vote is. Equally importantant, is the belief of “faithless” electors. The article that was previously cited choosing against the Electoral College states that “’faithless’ electors have occasionally refused to vote for whomever they please”. These “faithless” electors are chosen to choose president that the people want them to choose but they ultimately change their minds. Getting rid of the Electoral College would ensure that untrustworthy electors would never betray the people putting the voting power in the hands of the people. According to the article, that was previously mentioned defending the Electoral College, it states that the electoral system “is not democratic in a modern sense… it is the electors who elect the president, not the people”. People cannot specifically elect the president, instead that job goes to the electors. Many people believe that we are voting for the president but in actuality we are not. A group of electors versus an entire nation in the choice of the president would obviously be determined by the peoples’ choice based on a belief of a democracy, but we still cling onto the Electoral College as the primary process. Many people have argued that if the popular vote were to be
The electoral system is “regarded as an anachronism, a non-democratic method of selecting a president that ought to be [overruled] by declaring the candidate who receives the most popular votes the winner” as pointed out in the article In Defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our desired method of choosing the president. The United States was founded upon the ideologies of freedom and representative government, which begs the question, why would we have a non-democratic method to decide the most powerful person in a nation where democracy remains as a provocative principle? The Electoral College is not a true democratic way to choose a president as a popular vote is. Equally importantant, is the belief of “faithless” electors. The article that was previously cited choosing against the Electoral College states that “’faithless’ electors have occasionally refused to vote for whomever they please”. These “faithless” electors are chosen to choose president that the people want them to choose but they ultimately change their minds. Getting rid of the Electoral College would ensure that untrustworthy electors would never betray the people putting the voting power in the hands of the people. According to the article, that was previously mentioned defending the Electoral College, it states that the electoral system “is not democratic in a modern sense… it is the electors who elect the president, not the people”. People cannot specifically elect the president, instead that job goes to the electors. Many people believe that we are voting for the president but in actuality we are not. A group of electors versus an entire nation in the choice of the president would obviously be determined by the peoples’ choice based on a belief of a democracy, but we still cling onto the Electoral College as the primary process. Many people have argued that if the popular vote were to be