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The Pros And Cons Of The Electoral College

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Both the Democratic and the Republican parties face head to head against each other in the race of claiming the presidential thrown. Election Day is held during the month of November on a Tuesday between the 2nd and the 8th for every four years after the previous election year. Every citizen that is eligible to vote can cast a ballot for whom they feel is a best fit for the presidential position, but do to the Electoral College the votes of the US population do not directly elect the president. This has led to a huge dispute and argument to why we as the “people” vote but are not essentially voting for who will be leading our country for the next four years. Since 1964 there have been 538 elector college votes that are distribute among the …show more content…

For example Puerto Rico has an estimated population of 4.4 million, but since Puerto Rico has no constitutional amendment to recognize them they are not allowed to vote even though, Puerto Rico is part of the United States territory and the people of Puerto Rico have US citizenships. If US citizens move to a foreign they are still allowed to vote by sending a post card with their vote to the last state they resigned from even US astronauts are allowed to vote from all the way from space making the US territories the only places that are not allowed to vote. Another argument would be that all votes aren't equal because the “electoral college makes some votes more equal than others” which gives the small states and states with low population more electoral votes then they should have.(Grey) If the population were divided by the number of electoral college votes every 574,000 people would be represent by one electoral vote, but since the electoral votes are distributed by state not people there are consequences that arise. Some of the larger states are ripped from their votes while the smaller states are given more votes do to the minimum 3 vote rule. With that being said the electoral college “pretend that few people live were they do and more people live where they don’t” giving states like California and Texas less votes then they deserve.

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