Reasons To Abolish Electoral College
Proposed Amendment to Abolish Electoral College
The Framers created the Electoral College in the Constitution over 300 years ago, and the system exists even today. The Electoral College’s purposes include giving power to small states and to give people the indirect power to elect the president, so that the wrong candidate would not win the election. However, many people contemplate whether the Electoral College should still exist. One major reason why includes the most recent presidential election. Most people know that the candidate who won the popular vote by about three million votes did not become president. As a result, the creation of petitions to abolish the Electoral College surfaced; for example one petition on the petition website moveon.org received over 610,000 signatures. Although many people believe that the Electoral College should be abolished, I do not support the bill.
It is for the following two reasons you should vote against this …show more content…
Article II, Section I, Clause II of the Constitution gives the states the requirement to have electors that will cast votes for the President and Vice President. Removal of the Electoral College would remove this power of the states to have electors, which would remove some of the organization that having the electors includes. Instead of having to count votes individually and each vote mattering, individual votes would just go to each elector and then the general result of the elector would likely be the vote of the elector. Also, removal of the Electoral College would also lessen the power of the smaller states and make their votes have less of a say than larger states. Since electors are generally based on population, votes from states with a lower population would not contribute as much to the election as votes from states with a large
The Framers created the Electoral College in the Constitution over 300 years ago, and the system exists even today. The Electoral College’s purposes include giving power to small states and to give people the indirect power to elect the president, so that the wrong candidate would not win the election. However, many people contemplate whether the Electoral College should still exist. One major reason why includes the most recent presidential election. Most people know that the candidate who won the popular vote by about three million votes did not become president. As a result, the creation of petitions to abolish the Electoral College surfaced; for example one petition on the petition website moveon.org received over 610,000 signatures. Although many people believe that the Electoral College should be abolished, I do not support the bill.
It is for the following two reasons you should vote against this …show more content…
Article II, Section I, Clause II of the Constitution gives the states the requirement to have electors that will cast votes for the President and Vice President. Removal of the Electoral College would remove this power of the states to have electors, which would remove some of the organization that having the electors includes. Instead of having to count votes individually and each vote mattering, individual votes would just go to each elector and then the general result of the elector would likely be the vote of the elector. Also, removal of the Electoral College would also lessen the power of the smaller states and make their votes have less of a say than larger states. Since electors are generally based on population, votes from states with a lower population would not contribute as much to the election as votes from states with a large