Pros And Cons Of Abolishing The Electoral College

The Electoral College, the system that elects our president in our people’s choice democracy. However, the thing is we do not choose our leader. The Electoral College is created in the Constitution of the United States Article II Section I and reformed in the 12 amendment. The Electoral College is a group of 538 electors who chose the president and vice president in separate votes since the passing of the 2nd amendment. There is no law stating that electoral have to choose what they want in 49 of the 50 states, the one being Massichuties who choses the natioal popular voter winner. With all these problems a question is always raised should the electoral stay with us or be abolished. The Electoral College needs to be abolished because the

With the unpopular winners, it makes it seem that the Electoral College does not truly have the people’s choice heard. The president just needs to win the Electoral College but not the national election. This makes it possible for the president to win without the public opinion in his or her favor. In fact, an unpopular president has been elected five times, in 1824, 1876, 1888, 2000 with George W. Bush and 2016 with Donald Trump(Ballaro and Bourassa). This creates an 11% or 5/45th false-positive rate for the presidential election. This which raises the question, do we want a system that produces a popular winner only 89% of the time. One flaw of the Electoral College is the 11% probability of producing a non-popular

When the founding fathers were creating the Electoral College, they wanted to create a system that provides a for and equal chance for all parties to win the presidency. However, the Electoral College makes it impossible for a third party candidate to win the presidential election. One example is when Governor John Kasich asked if he would run on a third-party ticket after he announced that he pulled out of the Republican primary. Governor Kasich stated, “wasting it {his voters}on a third party ticket, especially in “purple” state, will have the opposite effect”(Arney). This shows that he believes that by running against the Republican Nominee, he would have swung the election in the Democrat's favor. An incident where a third-party candidate took votes away from a major party was in 2000 when Ralph Nader ran in the election. Nader won 5% of the national vote and caused the democratic members in the Electoral College of Florida to vote for Nader instead of Al Gore. Because the both Gore and Bush needed 24 more votes, a number of votes Florida had at the time, to get the 270 to win the Floridian votes were given to Bush and let him win the election. According to the NCPA, the National Center for Policy Analysis, a “direct popular election of presidents, or the proportional allocation of a state's electoral votes to each candidate, would incite minor parties to fractionate the