Positive Effects Of The Electoral College

These past couple months leading up to and after the 2016 presidential election I have been thinking about the impact effect of the electoral college. The electoral college is made up of the number of state members in the house of representatives and the number of state members in the senate. In Kansas we have 6 electoral college votes because we have 4 house of representatives and 2 senators. The electoral college was originally designed so each state could choose representatives to cast their states vote in the presidential elections. Now the electors are chosen by the political parties in the state. When the electoral college was started there was no good way to calculate the popular vote by the entire population. There was very little technology available to count the votes, so
The population has spread out so far that it is extremely difficult to allow for every qualified voter to have their own vote to count in the deciding of the president. The increase of technology has allowed this to become much easier, but we have still stayed with using the electoral college as the final official votes that decides the president. The higher populated areas are because of where the first cites were developed and the creation of factories, roads, railways, and number of jobs available. With the use of the electoral college it is taking away the weight of the peoples vote. The amount of importance that a person’s vote has in a very spread out population than a densely populated area is much higher in that area, but is nothing when you look at the entire state. The election, for the president, was created to allow the population of the entire country the ability to choose their president. The electoral college is taking away the peoples vote and a large portion of the qualified population is not voting because they know their vote doesn’t really