The nation was holding its breath during Election 2000, as the ballots were being recounted over and over again in Florida. Who was going to be our next Commander-in-Chief? How can there be a president without reflecting the popular will of the nation at large?
The Electoral College is an inept device created in less democratic times by our nation's founders. It has occasionally allowed a candidate receiving fewer popular votes to win an election. There have been as many as four presidential candidates who won the popular votes [as recent as 2000], but lost the election because they received fewer electoral votes. Under the Electoral College system voters vote for electors, who would then cast their votes for candidates. However, electors are not required to vote for candidates the
This method of voting will be more accurate, determining the winner. Since, every vote will count equally towards the final total. It will eliminate the Electoral College’s potential problem of a “faithless elector” betraying their party and unfairly negating the faith of thousands of voters.
In order to preserve the dignity and faith among the citizens of this nation, it would be worth amending the Electoral College. An individual citizen should cast one vote for the candidate of his or her choice. The candidate who receives the most votes nationwide would win the election.
Forefathers of our nation did an excellent job constructing the constitution, but the airbags in the car were not invented back then. We as citizens of a divine powerful country in the world need to add
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