Why Do We Need The Electoral College?

Many people tend to think way too much when it comes to government policies. And when people begin to think too hard, then the thoughts floating around in their head make perfectly fine things turn into issues. One issue that is starting to arise is that of the Electoral College, which has been around since the Constitution was scripted. This may seem like a long time ago, and it may appear to some people that times have changed, so the Constitution should change with it. However, if something so greatly prepared has worked for such a long period of time with a superior outcome, what would the point of changing it be? People in general should not come to conclusions, unless they can tell you what it is, how it works, and if they think that
The people in this group have an official name, they are called electors. In Article II Section 1 of the constitution, the framers stated that they did not want the president elected directly by the masses of people throughout the United States, but by selected, supposedly dispassionate, reasonable men (Schmidt, Shelly, Bardes,183). These electors are selected every presidential election year through a process that is governed by state laws. The Electoral College is made up of five hundred and thirty-eight electors. This is not a random number, however. Each states number of electors totals to the number of senators plus the number of representatives. So the numbers make sense, because there are a total of one hundred senators, and four hundred and thirty-five House members, along with the three electors that represent the District of Colombia (Schmidt, Shelly,
These results have led to calls for replacing the Electoral College with the popular-vote system (Schmidt, Shelly, Bardes, 184). Some may think that abolishing the Electoral College is the solution. However, that would require a Constitutional amendment, which would be difficult to pass (Schmidt, Shelly, Bardes, 184). With this in mind, it does not make any sense to even make an effort to make such a motion. Therefore, they need alternate ways to bypass the Electoral College standards as they were set when the Constitution was signed (Schmidt, Shelly, Bardes,184). They need to come up with alternative ways so that prevention of an unpopular president becoming elected can take place. A proposal was made requiring each participating state in an interstate compact, which was attempting to bypass the existing Electoral College system, to cast all of its electoral votes for the candidate who receives the most popular votes