Many people argue that the Electoral College is an outdated system. After all‚ many things have changed in the last two centuries. For one‚ technology is much more advanced now than it was two hundred years ago. With the internet and television‚ we can now learn everything about a candidate regardless of where the come from in the nation. It is feasible to have direct election of a president because of these improved methods of communication and the evolution of technology in general. There are
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states. This is in no way fair to the American people who truly care about who takes office. Though the Electoral College was created to represent the will of the American people‚ it is a failure at reflecting that
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citizen of legal age the right to vote in elections. The Electoral College provides electoral votes to candidates based popular votes. The Electoral College is unfair to popular vote as it is an indirect system of voting where citizens are not directly voting for the President. This system grants 538 electors to become the voice of 319 million. The Electoral College was established during the Constitutional Convention of 1787. The Electoral College is a “System established by the Constitution to elect
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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
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The United States Electoral College is an integral part of America’s political system. In 1787‚ the delegates of the Constitutional Convention decided on the creation of the Electoral College‚ or a system under which a body is elected with the expressed purpose of itself electing a higher body. The College was established by Article Two‚ Section One of the United States Constitution. (Lesson 2: Political Participation‚ n.d.) The Founding Fathers wished to provide the people of each state the ability
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United States Electoral College is the institution that officially elects the President and Vice President of the United States every four years. The President and Vice President are not elected directly by the voters. Instead‚ they are elected by "electors" who are chosen by popular vote on a state-by-state basis. Criticisms of the electoral college- 1- statistical advantage to the small states 2- people only campaign in the big states 3- you can win popular vote but lose the electoral vote 4-
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According to the National Archive‚ The Electoral College process consists of the selection of the electors‚ the meeting of the electors where they vote for President and Vice President‚ and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress. The Electoral College was established within the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens The Electoral College although develop by the founding fathers
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Electoral College is a type of configuration process electors’ choice. It’s a meeting of the electors that they carried out the selection of the president and vice president. This process also includes the calculation by the electoral council. The founding father of the Electoral College was established within the Constitution as a compromise between election of the president by election in accordance with the popular vote in a parliamentary vote‚ as well as qualification of citizens. The establishments
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Framers of the United States created a system called the Electoral College. The Electoral College is a group of representatives of each state who cast the final ballots that actually elect the president. In 1787‚ the Electoral College was created by the Framers who were also called the “Founding
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The Electoral College is an old and outdated system. Granted it has worked for over 200 years and has elected 44 presidents in the United States‚ but it needs to be changed. At the time the founding fathers believed that this was a good system and that it would truly represent Democracy. However‚ now it actually turns people away from voting because they thing their vote doesn’t count. People become discouraged from voting because if you are a republican living in a highly democratic state‚ essentially
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