In the most recent election Donald Trump won, even though he got 380,000 fewer votes than Hillary Clinton. Most people who came out to vote on election day wanted Hillary Clinton to be the president, but still Trump ended up winning. How is this possible? What kind of system is this in which the person who gets more votes actually ends up losing? This scenario is only possible through the Electoral College. In Electoral College, each state gets number of electorates based on the number of senators and representatives (Wilcox). A presidential candidate just needs to win more electoral votes instead of popular votes to win. The Electoral College has been under increasing criticism since the presidential elections of 2000, when George W.Bush won the presidency over Al Gore. When, unlike the most election, Al Gore won a majority popular vote but not electoral votes (Wilcox). People still have not completely abolished this because its is a very long and tedious process. America the front face of democracy in the world has, as some call it, a flaw in its voting system which needs immediate attention because the Electoral College does not support a true democracy.
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Even though, it is a long process to abolish the Electoral College, it should be eliminated because it does not democratically represent America and it was made under and for circumstances which do not exist
Even though, it is a long process to abolish the Electoral College, it should be eliminated because it does not democratically represent America and it was made under and for circumstances which do not exist