There has been a lot of controversy surrounding the Electoral College System. Through out the history of the United States, there have been problems with the system used to elect the president and vice president of the United States. The United States’ most recent conflict is the Al Gore and George Bush election in 2000. The state of Florida was under high surveillance after the U.S. believed there was a miscount. An illegal ballot in Palm Beach County resulted in an extraordinarily high number of missed-votes. (Dunn) A Democrat designed the ballots. There were over 33,000 votes that many people believe were for Al Gore that were not counted. Al Gore won the popular vote by 540,000 (final certified state totals). (Dunn). If the contested electoral count in Florida were si

In conclusion, the Electoral College system continues to raise questions if it should still be in existence. There are still three major problems with today’s Electoral College system. First a president can be elected to office even if it is not what the people want. (Wickman) Another problem is that electors are not punished for being unfaithful to what they have pledged. (Wickman) And finally the system for electing a president if no electoral majority is reached. (Wickman)

The electoral system was devised by the drafters of the Constitution of the United States, who hoped thereby to entrust the responsibility to people whose choice would be unaffected by partisan politics. In the constitutional convention the drafters had to decide how much power they would entrust with the people of the United States, and how much should be controlled by representatives. (Wickman) They chose to have Congress make the laws, and congress would be selected directly by the people. (Wickman) In Article II, Section 1, of the Constitution, the process of selecting electors is controlled by the separate state legislatures, and the voting procedure to be followed by the electors is carefully defined. According to the elector

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