Electoral College Is Not Fair Essay

Is the Electoral College a fair and true system? The Electoral College is the system in place to pick the next president of the United States. The issue with the Electoral College people think it is not fair because majority vote wins a whole state and it cancels like the rest of the votes. Every state has at least two votes. Votes or points are calculated by the amount of representatives the state has. The least amount of votes a state can have is three like Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana as shown on the map in Document A. The reason three is the lowest number a state can have is because every state gets two representatives in senate and at least one in congress when you add these together you get three. The people of Alaska may think this is not fair because for the way more than 50,000 people voting there is only 3 actual “votes” or points going to the Presidential selection. If the Majority of the state votes for example Hillary Clinton she would win the state and all three points and if someone voted Donald Trump there vote basically does not matter or did not count.
Anderson. Ronald Reagan went to win the election with 50% of the popular vote and 91% if the Electoral College. In a later election of 1992, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Ross Perot ran against each other for the presidency. Ross Perot being a third party candidate kind of took 18.9% of the popular vote away from both of the candidates as shown in the graph in Document B. Which not a terrible thing, the issue with third party candidates or independents is they were running with the democratic party but loses the Primary Election and becomes a independant they will split the party. This pretty much insures a party lose in the