The electoral college is a group of people that vote based on the popular vote in their district. The people who are in the electoral college can be regular people who are picked by the state legislature. How many points a state get is based on that state’s population. The points are the number of electoral college representatives who can vote for whoever they want. When the state is won all the points go to the person who won that state. So should the electoral college stay the same‚ or changed
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Is the Electoral College a Democratic Institution? Ever since the Constitutional Convention of 1787 there has been constant debate as to whether or not our system of voting‚ the Electoral College‚ is a democratic institution. After all‚ how can an electoral system that grants the power of the presidency to the candidate who did not win the popular vote claim to be truly democratic. This debate over whether or not we should dispense of the Electoral College in favor of a system based on a purely
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Why the Electoral College should not be preserved? The Constitutional Convention of 1787 gave birth to the system of the Electoral College. Electoral College system can be described as a system in which voters vote for electors on election day‚ who then cast their vote for candidate in their respective party. Our Founding Fathers described this system in Article II‚ section 1 of the Constitution. According to the Constitution‚ electors per state are equal to the number of seats each state holds
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The electoral college in america should be abolished because it has major flaws‚ supports political inequality‚ and doesn’t support third party candidates. On top of the flaws that already exist in the electoral college the biggest flaws is what happens when there is a tie. In the case of a tie the decision of who gets to be president is cast in the House of Representatives. This would mean that every states essentially has one vote making “the single representative from Wyoming‚ representing 500
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president‚ instead they choose group of electors‚ selected on a state by state basis who will support and cast their vote for the party’s president candidate that they support which form electoral college. This paper will explain and analyze the voting process in US‚ mainly focusing on the Electoral College. The Elector College is the process use in the
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The Electoral College Before the tense and puzzling presidential election in 2000‚ many people thought the Electoral College was a place of education. Most people now know that it is not a place‚ but a process of how the President of the United States of America is elected. The Presidential Election of 2000 helped inform Americans that our President is not elected by the popular vote‚ but through the process of the Electoral College (Ballaro). The Electoral College has existed since the beginning
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The Electoral College was established in 1787 as a compromise between having Congress select the next President of the United States‚ and having a direct democracy in which the popular vote selected the next President. The system has worked for over 200 years‚ so why change it now? Proponents for the Electoral College to remain the same argue that the Electoral College contributes to the cohesiveness of the country by requiring a distribution of popular support to be elected president‚ enhances
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popular election‚ the United States has the Electoral College‚ a group of elected electors who represent a certain states votes. The Electoral College was established by the constitution to protect minority interests and reduce the possibility of a regional candidate. However‚ some believe that the advantages of a direct popular vote election‚ such as its consideration of democratic values‚ outweigh the disadvantages. While others believe that the Electoral College has been put in place to hinder regional
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The Electoral College The upcoming presidential election is just around the corner‚ and with that comes the never ending debate over the Electoral College. Should it be abolished? Why is it beneficial? Why was it even created? These are just some questions usually associated with the Electoral College. On the contrary to what some might think the Electoral College should be in place and not abolished. Why? To understand this one must first know why the the founding fathers created it‚ what the Electoral
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I like the Electoral College. I don’t want a most popular vote win election because I want the smaller states to still have a say‚ but‚ if America switches to most popular election‚ the way things are‚ might just get worse. There are some good reasons for a most popular election‚ and there are not good reasons for one too. I like the Electoral College a lot‚ and I would like the voting system to keep it that way. However‚ our founding fathers created the Electoral College‚ to create a better way
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