Pros And Cons Of Abolishing The Electoral College
What if I were to tell you that something in the constitution was actually unconstitutional? The Electoral College is, and there are many more reasons it is a flawed system of electing our president. As it stands today, electoral votes only matter in a few states and some states do not matter in the grand scheme of things. Besides that, we have recently had a president elected who did not win the popular vote. This president has made a number of controversial decisions, and many call for him to be impeached for a large variety of reasons. The Electoral College elected such a man, not the majority of the people. This, among many other reasons, is why the Electoral College should be abolished.
Even though it is in the Constitution, the Electoral College is unconstitutional. The American Bill of rights declares us a democracy, which therefore gives everyone equal say. However, as Leon Friedman of the Huffington Post shows“Wyoming has a population of 584,153 and has three electoral votes, which means that each Wyoming elector represents 194,717 voters. California has a population of 38,800,000 and has 55 electoral votes so each elector represents 705,454 voters. So each Presidential vote in Wyoming is …show more content…
A vote in Wyoming is worth 3.6x as much as a vote in California. Besides that, the candidates only focus on a small number of states.. In fact, Politico states “Today, roughly two-thirds of the states are written off as the province of one party or the other before the first primary votes are even cast.”5 Later on in the same article, only 11 states are mentioned as “battleground states” for the 2016 election (Battleground states are states where there is not a clear winner based on past trends.) Basically, if you don’t live in the 11 states that are battlegrounds, people in those states will have their opinions and needs put before
Even though it is in the Constitution, the Electoral College is unconstitutional. The American Bill of rights declares us a democracy, which therefore gives everyone equal say. However, as Leon Friedman of the Huffington Post shows“Wyoming has a population of 584,153 and has three electoral votes, which means that each Wyoming elector represents 194,717 voters. California has a population of 38,800,000 and has 55 electoral votes so each elector represents 705,454 voters. So each Presidential vote in Wyoming is …show more content…
A vote in Wyoming is worth 3.6x as much as a vote in California. Besides that, the candidates only focus on a small number of states.. In fact, Politico states “Today, roughly two-thirds of the states are written off as the province of one party or the other before the first primary votes are even cast.”5 Later on in the same article, only 11 states are mentioned as “battleground states” for the 2016 election (Battleground states are states where there is not a clear winner based on past trends.) Basically, if you don’t live in the 11 states that are battlegrounds, people in those states will have their opinions and needs put before