within the Electoral College and can decide the history for our country over the next four years. The Electoral College was created so that uneducated people wouldn’t put an under qualified person into the Presidential Office. “The Founding Fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens.” (https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/about.html)
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hectic. The government would focus on large cities and small‚ meager states would be left voiceless. Abolishing the Electoral College would cause elections to become more regional‚ more unfair‚ and more corrupt. The Electoral College allows elections focus on smaller states‚ creating a national election. The government was created to appease to the states; with the Electoral College‚ states have a louder voice.“States are allocated one elector for each of
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The Electoral college system is in need of reform for the following three reasons. First‚ it creates the potential of having faithless electors. During an election electors may pledge their vote one way that corresponds with the party‚ and then cast their vote in the opposite way. Second‚ it gives the candidate an opportunity to win the election without receiving the popular vote. The candidate may have received the popular vote by gaining more states‚ but looses states that have a large amount of
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defines the Electoral College as a body of electors chosen by the voters in each state to elect the President and Vice President of the United States. The founding fathers of our nation ingrained it in the Constitution as a compromise between the election of the President by a vote in Congress and by a popular vote of adept citizens. Research will show the impact and importance the Electoral College has on the political system in the United States. The process of the Electoral College consists of
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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
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Govt 2305‚ 09/20/13 Argument Against Abolishing the Electoral College I must say that when starting this semester I was staunchly for the abolishment of the Electoral College‚ believing that it was inherently unfair‚ went against the best interests of the people‚ and favored the power-elite; however‚ that opinion has recently changed due to my learning more historical facts‚ which‚ in turn‚ led to the ability of making a better-informed decision. My change of opinion started when I learned
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information about the Electoral College. I will define the Electoral College and it’s true history of its name and much more. The Electoral College is filled with history and reasons it came to be as it is. Also I will explain to you how to become an Elector while telling you the significance and the ultimate job of the Electoral College. The Electoral College is A constitutional compromise between the opposing political factions to elect the president. The idea of the Electoral College was founded by the
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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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Electoral College Reform Five times in our nation’s history‚ the Electoral College has failed and elected a president that was not the majority vote from the election. The two most recent cases were the 2000 election between George W. Bush and Al Gore and the 2016 election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. During elections‚ there is always a good turnout because people are excited to vote for the next president of the United States‚ but what they do not know is that they do not directly
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Many people argue that the Electoral College is an outdated system. After all‚ many things have changed in the last two centuries. For one‚ technology is much more advanced now than it was two hundred years ago. With the internet and television‚ we can now learn everything about a candidate regardless of where the come from in the nation. It is feasible to have direct election of a president because of these improved methods of communication and the evolution of technology in general. There are
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