Votes

address include; the recognition of small states votes, winning candidate gets majority vote, keeping us away from a recount, represents the country as a whole, certainty of income, makes having a two-party system easier, and…

In the United States we believe all citizens should share an equal voice in electing who represents them. Every election year, citizens vote for our future president but the votes of the Electoral College ultimately decide the victor of the presidential elections, not the people. Using an Electoral College rather than a direct vote means that not everyone truly holds a voice. The Electoral College should be abolished because it violates the basic principles that our nation was founded upon. The…

not win by popular vote but by electoral votes; meanwhile, Abraham Lincoln won both, popular and electoral vote. During the 1860 presidential election, Abraham Lincoln succeeded in running against four other presidential candidates. He had won 180 out of the 303 electoral votes, exceeding his competitors. He was elected president “over a deeply divided Democratic party, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency. Lincoln received only forty percent of the popular vote but handily…

process. It takes months for candidates to prove why they should be president with their campaign. When people vote at churches or schools or other public areas, these votes rarely matter. These votes influence the electoral college, which are the real votes that decide the next President. The electoral college is a voting system where a group of people from each state cast their votes for the whole state based on popular majority. Some people want the electoral college abolished, but it should…

The Electoral College system in America is based upon the foundation that rather than counting the votes on a per-voter basis, the votes are counted by states. To better represent each state’s populations, “Each state is awarded a certain number of votes in the Electoral College, depending on the size of its population” (Drew 1). Although many oppose the electoral college system due to the lack of representation of republicans in highly democratic states (and vice versa), the system works…

In an alternate vote, voters rank the candidates they want to be president. They do not have to rank, meaning they can still place one vote for and that is it; and the voter does not need to complete the ranking system if they do not want to, that is the voter may only rank one and two only, leaving three and after not cast Voters…

In 1876, Hayes received 47.95% of the national popular vote, in 1888, Harrison received 47.82% of the national popular vote, and in 2000, Bush received 48.56% of the national popular vote (Jost, Giroux 993). These three presidents have something in common. All three of these presidents won the presidential election without as much as gaining the plurality of the national popular vote. This is the biggest issue concerning how the United States of America elects the office of President through the…

method called the Electoral College. The Electoral College is a group of people who represent the states, and who essentially cast their vote to choose the next president. Many people within the U.S. are often offended when they realize they are not actually voting for their desired president. These people generally like to view the other method, the popular vote, as a better way to choose the president. The Electoral College is thought as a confusing thing to understand by the average American…

elections because it lands directly in the middle of the work week. This is a huge concern because voter turnout and participation rate decreases due to this inconvenient timing. Most people simply do not or cannot take off a paid day of work to go vote, and instead elect to go after working hours, at the same time as everyone else who has the same idea. Some states booths even close at 6pm, right around the time a lot of people get off work…

In the most recent election Donald Trump won, even though he got 380,000 fewer votes than Hillary Clinton. Most people who came out to vote on election day wanted Hillary Clinton to be the president, but still Trump ended up winning. How is this possible? What kind of system is this in which the person who gets more votes actually ends up losing? This scenario is only possible through the Electoral College. In Electoral College, each state gets number of electorates based on the number of…