Electoral College

usually think you show up to the poll, cast your vote, then immediately go towards the candidate. Instead, the process is very different and includes something called the Electoral College. Not an actual college, but a way the states can discuss with each other to cast the vote. Personally, I don’t agree with the Electoral College being a part of the United States voting system, as the system seems unfair and should be changed for the better; this is causing people to not cast in their votes at…

For the fifth time in U.S. history, and the second time this century, a presidential candidate has won the White House through the Electoral votes, while apparently losing the popular vote. It just so happened that Hilary won the popular votes having 65,435,318 and Trump having 62,788,630 total popular votes. While, Hilary had 232 votes in the Electoral College, Trump, who had a total of 306 votes, is the president elect of the United States. In order to understand the above subject as it…

electors the Electoral College of the United States of America is the organization that elects, every four years, the President and Vice President. The Founding Fathers of America, such as Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, George Washington, among many others, established the Electoral College in the Constitution, in the late 1700’s, whom the Congressional Digest claims was entrenched “as a compromise between election of the President by Congress and election by direct popular vote.” With the…

known as the Electoral College. The founding fathers built the election process around the Electoral College, but there are problems with the system to accompany its strengths. There are many states which can have a greater influence during elections than others, known as swing states. On the other hand, there are states so set in their political ways that they nearly always lean towards one political party or the other. Arguable the most concerning problem with the Electoral College is the…

Presidential Election, it’s important for people to understand their role in the voting system and how the voting system actually works. One important aspect to the election is the Electoral College, which is the true body that hand picks the President and Vice President. However, many people are in the dark to as what the Electoral College actually does. Is it a system that directly reflects the votes of the citizens or is it a calculating system that sides with the majority? As of June 28,…

The electoral college is a system of voting based on the population of each state. The states with larger populations have more electoral votes, which means the majority vote of each state is what those electoral votes represent on a national level. The electoral college should be modified where each state has the same amount of votes no matter the population. The votes should be counted and the electoral college shouldn’t have the final say. Also people who already have a place in office…

The Constitution of the United States does not leave room for democratic rule. There are several instances that indicate that this statement is true, some are: the Electoral College in the selection of a President, the ratio of citizens to Senators, and the President’s judicial appointment of Supreme Court Justices. The rules set forth in the Constitution do not constitute a democracy because the weight of each vote varies. The Senate is one of the two sections in the Legislative Branch of our…

The Electoral College is one of the most commonly criticized and commonly misunderstood systems in electoral politics today. Criticism about the electoral college can be heard from both sides of the aisle, from both Republicans and Democrats. Some say it distorts the will of the people because it can turn a popular vote winner into an electoral college loser. While others say that it is one of the last remaining pillars of the federalist system that our nation was founded on. In Judith Best’s…

The Electoral College can be seen as a good thing due to the fact that it helps unite the country as a whole. Without the College, American politics would be less stable than they are today. Though it can be frustrating to either political side, the Electoral College has benefited America for a long enough time that they should preserve it. The fact that the Electoral College protects minorities gives it the ability to be a two-party system that maintains a well put together government.…

Description The Electoral College and be found in Article 2, Section 1, of the Constitution. It was created in 1787 and thought up by James Madison. The electoral college states that if a candidate wins a state then all of the state's electoral votes go to that state, but it’s more complex than that, it also states that the number of electors a state has is based on population. The electoral college also stated that a slave owner could count their slaves as ⅗ of a person when counting out total…