How To Eliminate The Electoral College

I’m going to be talking about if we should eliminate the electoral college. On December 13, 2000, vice president Al Gore conceded the presidential election to Governor Bush. A day earlier, a lengthy and expensive manual vote recount process in Florida was stopped by the United States supreme court despite Bush leading by only 537 votes with Bush winning the states by 25 electoral votes put him over the needed threshold of 275. This election result was highly unusual not just because of Supreme Court decisions it was also the 4th time in united states history that a candidate had garnered majority of the popular votes but lost the election. As you all also have heard this type of scenario happened again with Hillary winning the popular vote
To reduce any chance of confusion rather than having people explicitly vote for electors on the ballot the presidential candidate a given group of electors is pledged to vote for is put on the ballot instead. Another common misconception about presidential voting in the united states is that the president is elected once the general public’s votes are tallied up. Again because the general public does not technically vote for a president, but rather on which electoral college representatives will get to vote for president, the president isn't officially elected until the following January. Specifically on January 6th the current vice president opens voting during a joint session of Congress. It’s during this session that electoral votes are tallied, with the deadlines for those to being submitted late in December. This may be to be something of a technicality, but there are many completely legal scenarios in which a different president may be chosen than the one who appears to have won after the general public has cast their ballot for electors. So who are these votes that actually elect the president and how are they
Their number is equal to the number of electoral votes the state has, which in turn is equal to the number of senators (two per state) and number of representatives (determined by population)said state has or in the case of the district of Columbia, a set three electors thanks to the 23rd amendment. An elector cannot vote for a vice president and president who both are from the elector’s home state. This rule was meant to ensure an elector could not vote for two of their state’s “favorite sons”. Today this is obviously not an issue for anyone so long as the presidential candidate picks a vice presidential candidate from another state of their owns. On election day whichever political party’s candidate whether it be democratic or republican or third party wins the majority of the states votes that slate of electors becomes the ones who get the vote for the president in their respective states. For example in 2012 Californians voted for the 55 party selected democrats who in turn all cast their 55 votes for the Obama Biden ticket. Now there are currently two exceptions for this all or nothing approach, Maine and Nebraska, they both used district