Argumentative Essay: The Unjust Electoral College

Good day. I am currently contacting you on the familiar issue of the unjust Electoral College. For instance, in 2000, the presidential election resulted in the presidency of George W. Bush; however, for the popular vote Al Gore had won. Al Gore lost the electoral votes 266 to Bush's 271 votes. The Electoral college is unreliable, contradicts the idea of democracy, and the idea is unfair to the citizens of the United States of America. To begin, the Electoral College is unreliable in the process of the selected candidates. The Electoral College members are chosen based on the voters vote for the president and in turn the Elect the president (Plumber 10). In the Electoral College there are 538 chairs according to "What is the Electoral College?", "The electors are generally chosen by the candidate’s political party, but

. . [; however,] it is entirely possible that the winner of the electoral vote will not win the national popular vote. (16)

This states that their is a possibility of disloyalty to the presidential candidates which was the result of the election in 2000, were Bush resulted as the winner, is possible and although it does not happen often their is possibility it will

The Electoral College, according to "The Indefensible Electoral College: Why Even the Best-Laid Defenses of the System are Wrong", has a winner-take-all system for each state and because of it some states will not see the candidate because they do not stand a chance of winning that state (13). For example, during the campaign in 2000 seventeen states did not see the candidates including 25 of the largest media marketing did not even see the campaigning ads (13). According to "In Defense of the Electoral College: Five Reasons to Keep our Despised Method of Choosing the