Electoral College

The Electoral College is a group of people who get to elect the president and vice president. They have a different number of representatives at each state that gets the benefit of electing the president and vice president every four years. The United States has a democratic system so the people also get to vote; however, the most popular candidate, or the person that wins the popular vote, may not win the presidency because of this group of people that get the final say on who gets elected or…

Electoral College The President of the United States of America is the most powerful man in the world. As the Commander-in-Chief, Leader of the represented party, and peacekeeper among the world, the President’s job is up for grabs every four years. Article II of The Constitution states, any natural born citizen who has been a resident of the United States for at least fourteen years, and above the age of thirty-five can become the President (Posner 1). In order to be elected, the candidate…

Abolish the Electoral College? Democracy, a noun defined as “a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives”. The Electoral College was established in 1787 in order to choose a President. Unfortunately though, the college was not able to make wise choices on presidential candidates. It was as if “asking a blind man to choose a color”.Times have drastically changed now. The foundation of the college are “based on…

In the United States the president is elected not through direct-popular vote nor through congress but instead through the Electoral College. The Electoral College is a very unique and complex way to elect a head of state. There are two stages of a presidential election, the first stage is the primaries. During the primaries candidates are campaigning to be the party nomination and represent their party affiliation. But an Independent campaigning has to gather signatures on a petition to be put…

An electoral college allows a voting system in which every state is given a certain amount of votes. Whichever candidate has more votes, wins the state. Having an electoral college allows equality throughout the United States, as an example, people that do not work or have a little to no income still have a say in who they believe should govern. The geography and religion are also factors of who people vote for and that allows not just the majority to win. Electoral colleges also direct more…

The Electoral College How the Electoral College was Established: When Americans vote for a President or a Vice President, they are actually voting for presidential electors, known as the Electoral College. (Staff, 2010) The electors, whom are choosen by the people, elect the chief executive. Each state has an assigned number of electors equally combined in total of the Senate and the House of Representatives, which is stated in the Consitution. After the voting polls are closed, the candidate…

The Electoral College The Electoral College is a process made by the founding fathers in the Constitution as a compromise between the votes of the people of the United States, and the electors of the United States, where citizens vote to assist their electors who will hopefully vote as their state did. But the main question a majority of voting citizens asks, is the Electoral College fair, and is the Electoral college trouble for the United States as a country built on democracy? Even greater,…

exacerbated the process of electing a president since the birth of the nation: the Electoral College. The Electoral College should be abolished because it makes some votes count more than others,…

rather than having individuals choosing the president through their own particular vote is a system known as the “The Electoral College”. In the book, “We the People: An Introduction to American Politics” an electoral college is defined as “ the electors from each state who meet after the popular elections to cast ballots for President and Vice President”. The Electoral College was acknowledge under Article II of the United States Constitution stating that each state will get one vote in favor…

1876, 1888, 1960, and 2000, the popular vote and the Electoral College did not elect the same candidate. However, the Electoral College had the final decision. The latest discrepeancy between the two voting systems revived the debate about the best election method. George C. Edwards develops the argument about how the Electoral College, with a faulty system detrimental to democracy, should be replaced with direct election. The Electoral College fails in protecting American citizens and…