Electoral College Elections Should Be Abolished

In a democracy no one should be excluded due to race, political choices, and religion. Certainly not due to where you live and should not count less. Ohio, Colorado, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, Virginia, and Florida being swing states will determine the 2016 election (Lampen, 2016) Unless you live in these states, you will find that your vote means little and in some other states your vote is actually worth less than a citizen in another state(Noble,2016). In the first case where swing states determines the results of the election. Currently there are 270 electoral votes needed to win an election(Lewis, 2016). This is where “Red”and ”Blue” states come in. According to Claire Lampen’s article, Blue states already supply 217 electoral votes and Red …show more content…
At this point it is important to know that blue states are those who have in recent years loyally voted democratic and the same goes for red states for the GOP.
The particular mechanic which makes each state red or blue is that the party which gets the most votes in the ballots gets the entirety of electoral college votes as explained at Fairvote.org.
Now, Texas, a red state having an ample amount of democrats, in 2012, 3.3 million votes for Obama was collected for Romney. In another scenario during the 2012 presidential election
Republican nominee, Mitt Romney’s 4.84 million votes in California counted towards Obama and rewarding him 55 electoral votes and none to Romney. Not only does this frustrate the minority groups in states, even though the electoral college are supposed to look out for the minority, it makes those states ignored by the