There are many proposed plans to run the government and decide the next president. Ideas including the District Plan, the Proportional Plan, the Direct Popular Election, the National Bonus Plan, and the National Popular Vote plan are in mind to fix the current system yet none have been decided. Currently, the president is decided by a method known as the Electoral College; however, this method has many disadvantages. In the United States today, the government runs a system known as the Electoral College.
The United States government is one of the most admired and complex in the world, On the contrary one of the fundamental components that has an extensive impression on the American People and the Election is the Electoral College. Our founding fathers created The Electoral College over two hundred years ago, and it is still in effect today. They feared that having just the Popular Vote would give too much power to one person. In this paper, we will be discussing what the Electoral College is, the benefits and disadvantages of the Electoral College as well as if the Electoral College should be abolished or reconstructed.
The 2017 election has chosen Donald j. trump as the president of the united states. Donald trump as the president, just think about how the election process really works and how its chooses our commander and chief of the military. The way the united states chooses who will be the next president is by the electoral college is a process when people vote for electors who then vote for the president or vice president of the united states. The electoral college was created by our founding fathers as a compromise between the “election of the president by a vote congress and the election of the president by popular vote if the qualified citizens.” (source1: what is the electoral college).
The Electoral College is pretty much a process that was established in the Constitution by the founding fathers which was suppose to be a compromise between election of the President by a vote in congress and by the popular vote of citizens. This process consists of the selection of electors, the meeting of the electors is where they vote for the President and Vice President, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress. In the Electoral College it contains 538 electors and to win the majority they need to have 270 electoral votes. As well as, the number of electors for every state is equal to the number of Representations that the state has in congress which is based on the population and there is also one vote for each Senator. So, each state has at least three electors and votes.
It seems as though the government wanted every other form of electing a president to fail, because they just continued to go to the next solution without trying to understand the problem and fixing it. It almost seems as if win the electoral college came into the play they just knew that it would work somehow because they kept trying at it until it worked. The article How the Electoral College System Works states that “the Electoral college system almost never functioned as they intended, but, prescribed only the system’s basic elements, leaving ample room for development.” To sum up my beliefs on the topic, I believe as though the government should get rid of the Electoral College because it’s a scam on America.
The Electoral College is made up of 538 electors. Every four years the cast votes decide on who will be the President and Vice President of the United States next. The votes are based off the polls from the American people who are registered to vote and who they think should be the next President and Vice President. However, the candidate will need a simple majority 270 to win. So, when a voter casts a vote the candidate is casting a vote for the Presidential Electors who was selected by candidate’s party.
The United States' President and Vice President are chosen through the Electoral College, an indirect voting system. As a middle ground between electing the president through a popular vote and having Congress choose the candidate, it was established by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution. According to this method, a set number of electors is allotted to each state based on its population, and these electors vote for the president on behalf of the residents of their state. For more than 200 years, the United States has chosen its president using the Electoral College system, which has proven to be a trustworthy and accurate method.
The electoral college is made up of 538 electors who cast votes to decide the President and Vice-President. The winner of the votes must receive at least 270 of the electoral college votes. The electors are chosen in a variety of ways, per each state. When citizens cast their vote for President/Vice President, they are actually voting for the electors. All the states but Maine use a “winner take all” system.
The Electoral College is a way of voting indirectly for the president of the United States. The Electoral College is made up of the number of senators and members of the house of representatives in the state. An example of this is Wisconsin, Wisconsin has 8 members of the House of Representatives and all states have 2 senators, therefore Wisconsin has 10 electors. The idea of an electoral college is very controversial because many people believe that the president should be voted in directly by the people.
America has come a long way since its establishment in 1776; two hundred and forty years has passed since then and the changes are quite notable. For instance, the fact that this country was built upon the backs of slaves who were stolen from their homeland, thankfully, laws that make slavery illegal exist now ("Congress Abolishes the African Slave Trade"). Same-sex marriage is legal, and anti-discrimination laws are trying to be put in place. All of these things are great for our country, but how long did it take to get to this point? 240 years?
There are many different opinions on whether the electoral college is outdated: People say there is no point for it being there anymore or there is still good uses for it. But despite opinions, the electoral should stay as it is because it allows an equal voting system. For example, To win a presidency they would need 270 electoral votes. The states also get one elector per state. As shown on the picture above, Wisconsin receives 10 votes-other states vary.
“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” - Winston Churchill. This belief that the average voter is incompetent is the reason why the electoral college was created; the electors provide a barrier between the ill-informed public and the government. The founders of America, the unquestionable champions of democracy themselves, did not trust the average American to choose what is best for the country. But were they right?
Another variation of the electoral college is the proportional system. This system splits the state’s electoral college votes by the popular vote percentages. It is like a mix of the electoral college and the popular vote. The winner of the state gets two votes, like the Congressional District Method. According to FairVote.com, “This way, a candidate who comes in second place in a state with 45% of the popular vote would receive 45% of the state's votes from that state, instead of 0%.”
In the question of whether the Electoral College was or still is a good idea, I would have to say no. Why the Electoral College was made goes back to the Founding Fathers of America, who had been arguing for months on whether Congress or the majority vote should pick the next president. Their compromise led to the Electoral College. However, to me, it seems like a band-aid to an actual solution because they couldn't agree on anything else.
e Democratic candidate for president could post a higher national aggregate vote total while failing to win a majority of electors in enough states to carry him or her to victory” (Roff 1-2). This happened in the 2016 election where New York senator Hillary Clinton lost to businessman Donald Trump despite receiving nearly three million more votes than him. All politics aside, this system directly contradicts the “one person, one vote” principle of democracy.. The electoral college also encourages gerrymandering.
