The Importance Of Abolishing The Electoral College

The Electoral College is the system that the United States uses to pick our next president. It does it through the vote of 538 Electorates who voters choose at the polls to represent them. Whomever receives 270 or more votes casted by electorates towards their ticket wins the presidential office. This system was created by the founders because they thought it would help protect the interests of the smaller states from the bigger ones. This system of choosing the next president of the United States is unfair and should be abolished in favor of a system that properly represents its people.
The Electoral College should be abolished because it does not represent the wants of the American people. This system of election allows the possibility of getting a president that the people did not directly choose. As in the case of the 2004 election and other elections before, the Electoral College selected a president that the majority of Americans did not want. The elected president, therefore, does not effectively represent the will and needs of the people.
The Electoral College also promotes the unequal representation of the people state by state. States of different sizes and populations all have the same amount of voting power no matter what. According to (Liptak, 2013) the New York Times this means that a state like Vermont …show more content…
Judge, Richard Prosner (2012), argues that the Electoral College helps us avoid things like run-off elections, levels the playing field for big states and small states and makes sure America gets a president that has their interest in mind(para. 2). Prosner really argues strongly that it should really be kept because it provides a certain outcome. He cites the 2000 election as his prime reason to support the Electoral College because of how chaotic that process was with the prolonged recount taking