United States Electoral College

The time for the Electoral College has passed as the times have progressed. As technology has advanced, the spread of information has become as simple and fast. When the founding fathers implemented the system, it made sense because most of the population was illiterate and uninformed; the early Americans needed a leader make the best decision on their behalf. Today, the American citizens are educated and have the means to make the correct decision for themselves. Popular vote should be the…

Voting is a core element to the process that keeps our system of government operational. Through elections, citizens have the ability to decide on who represents them in government, be it a local official, a state or national representative, or the president. When voting for a president we should not vote based on morals, but instead what that candidate can do to help restore this country. None of these presidential candidates are suitable for the position or have morality. However, I would have…

go to their polling place and cast their vote to determine the next president...so we thought. The electoral college is a system that allows each state’s senators to vote for the final tally. It is crucial for appointing the best candidate. America’s opinion of the electoral college is diverse.Some people think it should be abolished. The electoral college should not be abolished. The electoral college is essential for benefitting many roles in the election and electing the…

Since the 2000 Election, the question of whether the electoral college does more harm than help the country has been a widely debated topic. While the question never left people’s minds, people seemed to believe it would not happen again especially after Barack Obama’s two successful wins in both the popular vote and electoral college. However, the recent 2016 Election truly has people outraged and thinking of the question more every day as the current President is constantly in the news for…

The Electoral College should be changed based on somethings and abolished on other things. The Electoral college should be changed/abolished because the electoral college voting is unfair, Hamilton said the population was to incompetent to choose a countries leader, because of the 270 rule, and it so a multi party system flourish. If Wyoming wants Trump as a president and the members of the electoral college for the state want clinton and the whole state end up going democratic that would…

Dear State Senator, the electoral college is an obsolete system of election. Although the electoral college was an idea set by the founding fathers in the constitution, this form of election is not effective any longer. People have the right to vote, but this form of election is not directly voting for a representative. The electoral college essentially makes the people vote for electors who then have the opportunity to vote for whom ever they would like. The electoral system is an archaic…

mass meeting throughout the country, and amongst them were John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, and Henry Clay. In the first vote Jackson received more popular and electoral votes than the other candidates but not the majority, due to what happened during the election of 1800s the two with the highest votes will go to the house where each state will have a vote. When it was the House’s turn to pick Crawford was ill and not fit for running and Clay did not want to see Jackson win and he was in no…

In 1872, electors voted for dead men. In the Electoral College you need 270 Electoral votes to become the president or majority plus one. The Electoral College elects the President. The Electoral count for each state is different because each state has different population count. If the state has more population more electoral vote count. Do you consider the Electoral College to be abolished or changed? The Electoral College should be kept the same because it protects the country and people from…

2) The winner-take-all system in the electoral college is each state gets so many electoral votes based upon their population. When people within those states vote for the candidate that they choose, the person with the most votes gets all of the electoral votes in that state. While the other candidate(s) get zero electoral votes from that state. How candidates run their campaigns is seriously affected by the winner-take-all system in the electoral college. The campaigns are affected because a…

voted directly from the citizen. With such the system which obstructs the rights of people to choose the leader they want, democracy was not carried out. Since the creation of the 17th amendment, Senators now are voted by the citizens of the United States. Because the people have the rights to choose their own leader, the campaign period before election become very interesting. To get the popularity of the people and people’s favor to vote for one individual politician, politicians now send a…