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The Electoral College

            
             The Electoral College has worked for the United States of America for this long for several reasons. The Electoral College has its upside and its down, but in this day in age I think we need a change. As time goes on things change and our rules much change along with us. We could update the Electoral College or simply start a new system. In my personal opinion I think we should get rid of the whole thing.
             We are much more educated in a sense than when this law was passed. We need to have an election process that relies more on the people and not by electoral votes. .
             The Electoral College system was built on the way people were educated back then. Today everyone for the most part in the United States has an education. Back then not to many people were. They had to rely on the people who were educated. Now people know more about things at least more clearly and they should have more weight in the process. With where technology is going it would be much easier to re-due to system based on popular election and trust that they are well educated enough to choose who is to be there leader.
             Today they give the illusion that the election is nation wide, but it really isn't. Popular vote holds no real weight in the elections. You can win the popular vote by far and still loose the presidency. This should be the way that it is. There should be sections of each state that should vote and they should all count singly. Then pool all the "community" popular votes together to see who would win.
             The system that we have now works fine until we can come up with a better way to vote that represents the people better and that isn't as complicated with the votes per state. If there are 20 million people in Texas and 1 million is Massachusetts then Texas would have 20 million and mass would have one broken up into comminutes.
            


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1. Understanding the Electoral College

... by these electors. The Presidential candidate team who earns the most electoral votes will be named the next President and Vice President of the United States, even if the popular vote swings in the opposite direction of the Electoral College vote. The 538 people given electoral votes are those elected to the Senate and as Representatives of the state in Congress. In this aspect, the people retain the power of the vote due to the fact that they ... 1824. At the heart of the Electoral College is political balance. When the college was created in the late 18th century, the United States w...

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2. The Electoral College - Supersede the Obsolete

... vote is conducted simultaneously. The national popular vote is the total of all the votes cast for a candidate, and the candidate with the most votes is the winner. However, the nationwide popular vote does not determine the winner of the presidential election; the Electoral College does. The Electoral College and popular vote have elected different candidates in history. A nationwide popular vote may compensate for many of the Electoral College's major flaws. One of the flaws of the Electoral College is that a candidate ... that wins the national popular vote ... ...

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3. Should the Electrol College be Abolished

... , of American democracy. To abandon it would be to radically change the fundamental structure of the Constitution by removing federal constraints on the power of the presidency." The founders of our Country and the framers of the United States Constitution instituted the Electoral College to separate powers between the States and the Federal Government. The Electoral College does this very effectively. Many supporters of the Electoral College bring up a valid point that to remove or replace this system ... would radically and irreversibly alter the way of life in American Democracy. All ...

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4. Electoral College Or Not: A Reform To The Constitution

... popular votes of the people, candidates are elected by electoral votes. Basically the Electoral College is the "middle man". There are problems with this system though. The possibility of "faithless electors", the possibility that an election could be thrown into the House of Representatives is undemocratic, and the possible role of the Electoral College in depressing voter turnout. The Electoral College should be reformed. The Electoral College does not always really follow the people's wishes for who the president should be ... , so the system should be rid ... ...

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5. The effects of Institutions: the electoral college

... today and should not be the basis upon which we elect the most powerful leader in the world. If complete abolishment of the electoral college is viewed as too drastic, adoption of the district plan functions as a beneficial compromise. Works Cited Delahunt, William. "Flunking the Electoral College?" The American Perspective. 7 February 2002. De Pangher, Everett. "The Electoral College: An Unacceptable Way to Elect Our President." The President Elect. 7 February 2002. EC: The U.S. Electoral College Web Zine. Avagara. . 7 February ... 2002. Fiorina, Morris and Peterson, Paul. The New Amer...

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6. In Favor Of Abolishing The Electoral College

... frequently cited in defending the Electoral College, is that of the need for a Constitutional Amendment to change our current electoral system. Another popular notion is that the Electoral College contributes to the political stability of the nation. It will become clear that the logic of this stance does not fare well when the gravity of the problems inherent to the Electoral College system are revealed. The Electoral College system fails to accurately reflect the will of the people. Over-representation of ... rural states is one of the unacceptable facts of the Electoral College. This...

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7. electoral college

... of presidents would work a diminution of the political power of racial and other minority groups in the nation's urban centers." On the other hand, the position in favor of ridding the nation of the Electoral College argues that the college serves no purpose. First of all, the present format of the Electoral College manifests the colleges" insufficient qualities. The current format of the college, giving the edge to the larger states, exhibits the inadequacies of it. "The Electoral College system, it is claimed, does ... not guarantee that the candidate with the most popular votes will ...

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8. electoral college vs popular v

... as to say that the Electoral College restricts the rise of another major political party. "The feature of the Electoral College most prone to attack is the requirement that the election go into the House of Representatives to determine the president and into the Senate to determine the vice president if the Electoral College fails to reach a majority- (Burdette, 2000). Consequently, this takes the election out of the general public's hands because neither the Senate nor the House is required to ... parallels include: Florida played a central role in the controversy. The snowball effect ...

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9. Electoral College-Election

... C. "The Electoral College: History of the Electoral College". Federal Election Commission. 25 Mar 2002. . United States. Congressional Research Service. The Electoral College: How it Works in Contemporary Presidential Elections. . United States. The Office of the Federal Register. National Archives and Records Administration. A Procedural Guide to the Electoral College. . Outline I. The Electoral College A. When it was established B. General Definition II. Procedures of Electoral College A. The Delegates Selected B. Majority Count III. Considered Methods for Presidential Election IV. Arg...

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10. The Electoral College

... They would rather seek out supporters in Texas over supporters in Rhode Island, because a victory in Texas will give them more chance of winning in the Electoral College. The particularly small states receive bias on the sheer fact that it is impossible to have less than three electors, meaning that in Alaska, one person's vote is worth many more times one ... every solitary vote would count. "The "winner take all" arrangement at the state level can indeed isolate the effects of voting fraud within in a state, but only if the fraud does not change the winner of the state. If the fraud i...

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