The United States President: Is It Fair?

Electing The United States President: Is It Fair? In order for the United States to elect a president there is a process. The process starts off with state primaries and caucuses. Primary and caucus is a selection process to see which candidate name will appear on the ballot for their given political party in the nationwide general president election. In a primary election, registered voters are allowed to participate in choosing the candidate for the party 's nomination by voting through secret ballot just as they would in a general election. However, there are two types of primaries, closed or open that determine who is eligible to vote in the primary. In a closed primary a registered voter may vote only in the party that they

General election day is held on the second Tuesday of November. During the general election, voters across the world cast their vote for their choice of President. However, American’s vote, known as the “popular vote” does not determine the winner of the election. Instead, presidential elections use the Electoral College. To win the election, a candidate must receive a majority of electoral votes. The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. In order to be president, candidate must receive 270 electoral votes. In the event no candidate wins the majority vote, the House of Representatives chooses the President and the Senate chooses the Vice President. Each state’s electoral votes are counted in a joint session of Congress and electors. Members of the House and Senate meet in the House chamber to conduct the official tally of electoral votes. The President of the Senate, presides over the count and announces the results of the vote. The winning candidate takes the oath of office and is sworn in as President of the United States on January 20th in the year following the Presidential

In fact, over time more than 700 constitutional amendments to change the Electoral College system have been proposed. The Electoral College system distorts the one-person, one-vote principle of democracy. Electoral votes tends to over-represent people in rural States. This is because the number of Electors for each State is consist of the number of members it has in the House of Representative, which overall reflects the state 's population size. It also consist of the number of members it has in the Senate, which is always two regardless of the State 's population. Being that states get a select number of electoral votes, in most cases, the Electoral College fails to accurately reflect the national popular vote. Electors have the power to vote for whomever they want even though ultimately they are supposed to represent the popular vote. Another problem with the Electoral College is it gives voters no incentive to vote. Being that the Electoral College votes elects the president, it discourages voters in states to not vote in