Problems With The Electoral College

The electoral college has created a political divide in America. In this day and age the last thing America needs is a division among it’s people. With pressing issues like terrorism, immigration and equality, America’s people need to be united but the issue of the electoral college is one of the things preventing that. Today I will be focusing on the electoral college. One of the many problems with the electoral college is the lack of laws supporting the popular candidate which means the college can choose the less popular candidate and by choosing the less popular candidate America is left with angry and violent citizens. Another problem with the electoral college is that the candidates don’t campaign in every state: they only campaign
States with a bigger population like California, New York, Pennsylvania, Florida, and Iowa ect. have a higher amount of electoral votes. For example, California has 55 electoral votes and Utah has 6 and New York has 29 votes and Idaho has 4. This allows New York and California to easily sway the election while Utah and Idaho can’t even make a dent in the election. Because states like New York and California have a high amount of electoral votes candidates are going to work hard to gain those states and ignore the smaller states like Idaho who don’t have as many votes. This results in the smaller states feeling ignored, which results in a low voter turnout. For example, Iowa is a heavily campaigned state and its voter turnout is much higher than Utah at 69.6% while Utah’s is 59.6%. As you can see Iowa has a 10% higher voter turnout than Utah. By eliminating the college every state will be campaigned for and every state will be able to sway the
The college divides America into 2 sides: the Republic side and the Democratic side. The college is supposed to unite America but instead causes tension between the 2 political parties which can lead to violence. For example, this year during the 2016 election there were many fist fights and insults thrown between the parties. Trump, a republican, threw insults at Hillary Clinton, a democrat, and his insults ignited even more fights causing the the Republicans to fight the democrats. Hillary Clinton also exchanged insults with Trump making the Democrats angry and the causing the democrats to fight back. This resulted in a huge divide in America because both the parties were angry at each other.
In conclusion, we need to abolish the electoral college. There are many reason why we should some of them being: when the less popular candidate is chosen it causes riots, some states aren’t campaigned for and that results in a lower voter turnout, and Americans have easy access to information so it is no longer needed. Now that you’ve read about the electoral college, go out and spread the word so we can get rid of this unfair