A substantial amount of American citizens expected Hillary Clinton to win the presidential election over Donald Trump. Her popular votes exceeded over one million, however Donald Trump won the electoral college. So although Hillary won the popular vote, the people’s vote, we have the electoral college which says our votes do not matter. The creators of this procedure most likely did not expect this scenario to occur. In the recent years it has been also revealed that it has many weaknesses. They can however, be improved by the people who want to see change happen. The voting system we currently possess in our society is not fair enough where every vote could be heard due to the electoral college.
First of all, where did the electoral college come from? In 1787, the same men that wrote the constitution made the electoral college. The original plan to elect …show more content…
One reform policy that has been suggested is “the district plan, awarding each state’s two at-large electoral votes to the statewide popular vote winners, and one electoral vote to the winning candidates in each congressional district”. Another policy is the proportional plan which awards “electoral votes in states in direct proportion to the popular vote gained in the state by each candidate.” An additional alternative is the automatic plan, “awarding all of each state’s electoral votes directly on a winner-take-all basis to the statewide vote winners” (Whitaker). SODA voting (where voters rank the candidates) is another option as well. That way when voting, you will not have to think about who is more likely to win, just who you think will run the country better. This will also require the voters to have knowledge even on third party candidates. Jim Eskin, an author for the Dallas Morning Newspaper, has a proposal to keep the electoral college, but increase the electoral votes by 102 and give all the bonus votes to the popular vote
First of all, where did the electoral college come from? In 1787, the same men that wrote the constitution made the electoral college. The original plan to elect …show more content…
One reform policy that has been suggested is “the district plan, awarding each state’s two at-large electoral votes to the statewide popular vote winners, and one electoral vote to the winning candidates in each congressional district”. Another policy is the proportional plan which awards “electoral votes in states in direct proportion to the popular vote gained in the state by each candidate.” An additional alternative is the automatic plan, “awarding all of each state’s electoral votes directly on a winner-take-all basis to the statewide vote winners” (Whitaker). SODA voting (where voters rank the candidates) is another option as well. That way when voting, you will not have to think about who is more likely to win, just who you think will run the country better. This will also require the voters to have knowledge even on third party candidates. Jim Eskin, an author for the Dallas Morning Newspaper, has a proposal to keep the electoral college, but increase the electoral votes by 102 and give all the bonus votes to the popular vote