The Founding Fathers knew they wanted their leader to have limited power. These delegates did not believe the common people would have enough knowledge to make a good decision, therefore they did not believe that the president and vice president should be elected by direct popular vote. With many other possibilities the delegates at this meeting settled on the Electoral College system. Each state has one electoral vote for each of the senators and representatives in their state making this politically equal representation. The way this works come election day, the common people are not necessarily voting for the president or vice president directly but rather voting for the person who will place a vote on their behalf in Congress. The fewest number of electoral votes a state can have is 3 because 2 senators (equal throughout the country) and 1 representative (based on population). In Document D it shows that people believe this violates our political equality because in a chart in Document D it shows that the 12 states and DC with the lowest electoral votes has a lower population than all of Illinois but all together they have more electoral votes (44) whereas Illinois only has a grand total of 20 electoral votes. There is an explanation for this, as mentioned earlier, there is a minimum number of electoral votes that each state can have (3), people question why Illinois does not have more electoral votes. Simply because the amount of votes are based on the total number of senators and representatives which, is already predetermined by population and each state is given 2 senators. Although it may look to be unfair it is only because there has to be a minimum number allowed for each state.- In Document A, people question how the electoral college is fair when the nominee may secure the presidency with only 10 out of the 50 states. However, many of these 10 states are very much so …show more content…
This is not true for all presidential elections but more often than not it is. Many people wonder why the the Third Party candidate often gets no electoral votes, and claim that they have no chance of ever winning a presidential election. Some Third Party candidates are more popular than others but most of America will vote for 1 of the 2 main parties. I believe that it is not the Electoral College system that does not give the Third Party nominee a chance, I think it is the fact that our votes weigh so heavily on the main parties that the only good a Third Party does is take votes from the other