development, weaknesses of the system, and proposed changes. This paper will go into the

depths of how and why it is still in use to this day. The purpose is to report to the voters of this

country and to teach them the basis of our voting heritage.

The Electoral College was developed because of the problem that our founding fathers

faced on the difficult question of how to elect a president in an emerging nation. The nation was

composed of thirteen large and small states jealous of their own rights and powers and suspicious

of any central government. The U.S. contained only 4 million people spread up and down a

thousand miles of Atlantic seaboard barely connected by transportation or communication

(making national campaigns impossible). As well as our nation’s framers felt that gentlemen

should not campaign for public office ( The saying was, “The office should seek the man, the

man should not seek the office.”) (Abbott, 7)

In the operations of the electoral college in our current nation, there are 538 electoral

college voters, and a majority of 270 is needed to win the presidency.(N.A.R.A) By decision

electoral college votes. However, this arrangement might weaken the two-party system.

“government of the people, by the people, and for the people.”(Abbott, 145) For that vision to

president. The candidate receiving the majority of electoral votes would become president and

president, then the president might feel an obligation to help Congress get certain laws passed by

Records Administration, in 1804, Congress adopted the 12th Amendment, providing for separate

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