Pros And Cons Of Abolishing The Electoral College

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In 2020 around 33% of Americans didn't vote for a president according to a poll by NPR.Recently, there have been some proposals in congress to change the electoral college system, from a normal system to a popular vote system. There were many different proposals to change the electoral college in the early 2000s, but none of them were passed.Although some people see the electoral college as unnecessary, without it, Electing our next president would be unfair to the people and the state The Electoral College is the system that gives small and big states an equal vote in presidential elections, used by almost every state in the U.S, and without it, electing a president would be much harder and unfair to the state and people. The United States has a very important process to electing a president known as the Electoral College, and because of it, it gives small and big states the equal votes to be fair in elections. The Electoral College is primarily run by the …show more content…

If the U.S. got rid of the Electoral college, it could cause even more problems than the ones people had with it. How would we elect a president? how would we vote for one otherwise? Without the system that kept elections fair, the U.S. would have more problems than they have with it now. If the U.S. were to abolish the Electoral college and replace it with a different system or by popular vote, “To do so would require amendments to the U.S. Constitution” (‘NCSL.” This explains that getting rid of the Electoral College could cause a lot more problems than it should. The U.S. The Constitution hasn’t been amended since 1992, and amending it for a system that has worked out for the U.S. for a long time just seems more than it's worth. The Electoral College is an important thing the U.S. has in place, and changing it could be terrible for the