The Controversy Of The Electoral College

Interest catcher: What would you do if one of the most powerful countries in the world, a country that was proud to be a democracy, a fair country, was actually not a democracy at all. That country is the USA. The president should be elected by the direct vote of the people, or the popular vote instead of the electoral college. The president is the leader of the USA, the election determines who is sit’s in the president’s office, the popular vote is the direct vote of the people and every vote is counted, and the electoral college is the current system of electing the president. The electoral college is not fair and does not promote the right to vote. The definition of the right to vote is a “legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US …show more content…
This topic arose to the most recent election: Trump VS Hillary. There has been much controversy to this election because Hillary won the popular vote by over 3 million votes. Sound’s like Hillary won, wrong. Trump lost the popular vote but won the electoral college, therefore he won the election. By now, you must have heard the backlash that the Trump campaign has been getting. This is the point, a democracy works because the people who voted wanted Hilary not Trump, but if Trump won and the majority of voters did not want that, then is the electoral college democratic? The electoral college is fundamentally undemocratic because the electoral college determines who wins the election. The biggest counterarguments to this claim is that changing the voting system goes against the constitution and that the electoral college almost always votes what the masses wants or that the electoral college protects the votes of the smaller, less populous states. In fact these claims are false and we should change the current system to where the popular vote determines who win the presidency. The president is maybe one of the most powerful people in the world, everything that he/she