The Presidential Election Process

The election process for President in the United States is an indirect process wherein citizens cast their votes to a group of members of the United States Electoral College. The elected members cast their votes directly for the Vice President and President of the United States. The Presidential election method had been established according to Article Two of U.S. Constitution. It was a result of the negotiation between those who favored national popular vote and the constitutional farmers who preferred the Congress to choose the President. Based on the current election procedure, the Presidential candidate who receives majority of the electoral votes is appointed to the office however if no candidate receives the majority, the House of Representatives …show more content…
The Presidential election system of the United States is done by the participation of the people, the Congress, the State Government and the Electoral candidates. Although there are four segments of the election process but there is a constant dependency in a single form of governance i.e. the democracy. In the United States, there are several political factions with different set of ideologies however they are not able to participate in the election process actively due to the dominance of the State government and the Congress that follows democracy in the nation. Therefore, there are some reforms that are required to be implemented in the election process in order to allow people to have more choices rather than only single form of government. There should be a centralized voting format and the people should have the access to elect their preferred political party. The political party along with the Congress could nominate the President because it would reduce the dependency on the Electoral College. Furthermore, people would be able to elect their preferred group and President directly instead of electing the Electoral members …show more content…
The election procedure of the Presidential candidate includes the votes from the citizens towards the Electoral College and the votes of the Electoral members towards the election of the Presidential candidate. It is also evident that without the majority of the votes from the Electoral members the decision cannot be made. In such circumstances, the Senate and the House Representatives finally select the Presidential candidate from the nominees. Therefore, the election system does not provide opportunity to the other political factions with different ideologies other than democracy to enter the election system appropriately. Therefore it is clear that the practice of Electoral College decentralizing the background for the national administrative, in respect to the global tendency to direct election has made the United States fall behind the international developments in presidential