The Electoral College system allows American voters to elect their president and his Vice President under composite arrangements that involve constitutional provisions, federal and state laws. Reform measures to retain the Electoral College in some form have welcomed a range of diverse proposals. Those that are opposed to the changes and believe that the Electoral College impedes democracy in a way that is inconsistent with American practices that are modern whereas the proponents believe that Election College reform contributes to the country’s cohesiveness by demanding a distribution of popular support to the president-elect. I firmly affirm the Electoral College because it yields the right winner who can govern the vast country
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234) the Automatic Plan will uphold the current Electoral College system’s harmony between federal and state power and between small and large cities. The plan will also help eliminate the possibility of ‘faithless electors’ as well as preserve the present two-part system under a state-by-state, winner-take-all method of allocating electoral votes. The proponents of this plan assert that this is the strength of the existing arrangement since it tends to reward parties that include a broad range of viewpoints and embrace vast areas of the nation. They also argue that the ‘minority Presidents can still be elected under the automatic system, and pit provides no electoral recognition of the opinion or views of voters who elect the losing …show more content…
The proponents also argued that plan reduces the probability of ‘minority’ presidents- those who triumph with a higher number of the majority but get few popular votes than their principal opponent. The plan proponents propose that it would favorably account for preference, by setting aside electoral votes within the states to bend back the actual support attained by different candidates specifically in the strict, as opposed to the rounded version of the plan. The argument that Electoral College is undemocratic is erroneous. Voters elect electors in free and fair elections. The Electoral College system specifies a federal election of the president where voters are tallied to vote in all the state. The founders wanted to choose the choosing of the President to be through an action of citizens in a federal republic where they participate both as citizens of the United States and as members of their state communities (Ganghof et al.
234) the Automatic Plan will uphold the current Electoral College system’s harmony between federal and state power and between small and large cities. The plan will also help eliminate the possibility of ‘faithless electors’ as well as preserve the present two-part system under a state-by-state, winner-take-all method of allocating electoral votes. The proponents of this plan assert that this is the strength of the existing arrangement since it tends to reward parties that include a broad range of viewpoints and embrace vast areas of the nation. They also argue that the ‘minority Presidents can still be elected under the automatic system, and pit provides no electoral recognition of the opinion or views of voters who elect the losing …show more content…
The proponents also argued that plan reduces the probability of ‘minority’ presidents- those who triumph with a higher number of the majority but get few popular votes than their principal opponent. The plan proponents propose that it would favorably account for preference, by setting aside electoral votes within the states to bend back the actual support attained by different candidates specifically in the strict, as opposed to the rounded version of the plan. The argument that Electoral College is undemocratic is erroneous. Voters elect electors in free and fair elections. The Electoral College system specifies a federal election of the president where voters are tallied to vote in all the state. The founders wanted to choose the choosing of the President to be through an action of citizens in a federal republic where they participate both as citizens of the United States and as members of their state communities (Ganghof et al.