Americans in schools, on TV and in newspapers, workers and the oppressed are constantly reminded how lucky they are to live in the “freest, most democratic nation on Earth.” Despite this their electorate system continues to fail them, continues to viciously deny millions of people a strong voice in elections,continues to distort the one-person, one-vote principle on which democracy stands. The American Electorate Collage does not belong in a country that is often perceived to be the greatest in the world, the system is inexcusably undemocratic.
The electoral college is, essentially a constitutional relic of a fundamentally different nation, a leftover from a bygone era in which the founding fathers specifically did not want a nationwide vote of the American people to
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Amazingly enough, though, nothing in the Constitution gives American voters the right to choose their president. That power is reserved for those 538 actual people who will meet in their respective states on December 19 — the electors. It's up to the states to decide how to appoint them. So when Donald Trump won the state of Alaska, the practical effect was that the Republican Party’s nominated elector slate there — former Gov. Sean Parnell, Jacqueline Tupou, and Carolyn Leman — officially became Alaska’s three electors. This process repeated itself across the country, resulting in the selection of the Electoral College — the 538 electors who will cast their votes for president. It is a system created with no more than the political elite in mind it pays no attention to the voices or needs of an American people. For decades, polls have shown that large majorities of Americans would prefer a