The Electoral College With the current tenseness of politics, a serious question arises. The electoral college: To keep or not to keep-- that is the question: whether ‘tis nobler for the country to suffer from the decisions of an outdated system that puts the future of our country in the hands of faithless electors instead of the voice of the people, and relies too heavily on swing states and highly populated areas or to change the system and allow for the voices of the people to ring free like the chimes of a bell. The removal of the Electoral College would be implemented due to the fact that the reasons the founding fathers created the electoral college are no longer relevant. Times.com brings attention the fact that, “ one founding-era …show more content…
In other words, just because a candidate won the popular vote in your state does not mean that your electors have to cast a vote for said candidate themselves.”(huffingtonpost.com) Electors that vote against the will of the people are called “faithless electors.” As fairvote.org explains, “Since the founding of the Electoral College, there have been 157 faithless electors. 71 of these votes were changed because the original candidate died before the day on which the Electoral College cast its votes. Three of the votes were not cast at all as three electors chose to abstain from casting their electoral vote for any candidate. The other 82 electoral votes were changed on the personal initiative of the elector.” It is said that “Twenty-nine states have legislation that penalizes faithless electors, though no faithless elector has ever been successfully prosecuted. 21 states do not mandate that an elector must vote for his or her party’s candidate.” The opinion of one person should not be able to overwrite the will of thousands (or even millions) of American voters, which is why the electoral college should be