Pros And Cons Of The Electoral College

The electoral college - how can it be good?

In a fair democracy everyone's vote should be counted equally, however the way that the United States elects its President violates this right by making sure some people have more voting power than others.

The Electoral college is in fact the 538 votes that determines who wins the presidency. Those 538 votes are distributed throughout the states. The candidate with a majority is elected President of USA. The states themselves uses the system most political scientists call FPTP or first past the post. FPTP is a system where the candidate with the most votes wins. So if you win more votes than your candidate in a state, you get all the electoral votes of that state. So win enough majorities in enough

First of all, every state get 3 votes to start with. Then the rest are given out accordingly to population. To fairly represent the people every 574.000 citizens should get one electoral vote. But then if we look at one of the states, the state of New York which has a population of 19.650.000 should have 34 electoral votes, but only gets 29. Then the question arises, where do those missing 5 votes go to? To smaller states, as Wyoming and Rhode Island. Wyoming has a population of 582.000 which should give them a single vote to cast to a president candidate, however Wyoming has 3 votes. Rhode Island has about a million inhabitants which should fairly represent them with 2 votes, but they get 4. This is because of the rule that every states no matter the size gets three

You don't think that's possible? This is how you can win the presidential election with only 22% of the general vote. You need to win the states where the votes are counted for the most and ignore the other states. Since the elections use winner takes it all, you only need half plus 1 of the votes to take home all the electoral votes of that state. If you win with 1 vote in every state that is listed to the right, the collected part of everyone who voted for you is 22 per cent. But if you look at the number of electoral votes you have a majority.

Congratulations you have been elected President by exploiting the rules set by the electoral college you have gained a majority even though 78 per cent voted against you. This is not a fair democracy, this is ludicrous.

But if you have a system that allows loser to win, don't be surprised when they do. This has happened in American history three times. The total sum of all elections held is the vicinity of 60, which means it is an average fail rate of 5 per cent. Would anyone tolerate a sport were because of the rules allowed losers to win 5 per cent of the