Electoral College Be Abolished

The electoral college has kept the USA together, it’s given the United States stability and has distributed power equally between the north and the (previously) slaveholding southern states, but now comes the question, does it still work? Should the presidential election continue to use the system of election (the electoral college, a system of indirect voting where each state holds a general election in order to elect electoral voters who then represent that state in the election for president) that it uses now? The answer? No, the electoral college should be abolished because it creates inequality between voters, it doesn’t allow third parties a shot at winning, and it doesn’t represent the wishes of the general population. First, the electoral

One document that illustrates this shows the 1824, 1876, 1888, and 2000 elections and compares their popular votes to their electoral votes. In each election the winner of the election lost the popular vote. This means that despite the fact that more of the voters wanted the other (in exception to 1824 which had more than two candidates) nominee the one who won the electoral vote still won the presidency. Even in 1824 it was not the candidate who won the most votes but the Adams who had won the election at the House of Representatives. But, he did not win most of the popular votes, or even most of the electoral votes. He was the runner up and yet he still became president because of the Electoral College system. Another example of this is in the document that compares twelves states and the District of Columbia to Illinois in relation to their population and electoral votes, it brings to light the fact that the thirteen smaller states combined have a population of 329,910 people less than Illinois and yet they still have 24 more electoral votes. This exemplifies the fact that smaller states have more power and that the Electoral College manipulates the voting so that there is equality between viewpoints instead of the actual balance between them. The document with the pie charts of the 1980 and 1992 presidential elections, specifically the 1992 election, provides a third example. It shows a comparison between the popular and electoral votes from the election, in the popular vote none of the candidates received a majority however in the electoral vote Clinton, the democratic nominee, received a sixty nine percent majority over Bush, the Republican candidate. This document lays bare that the Electoral College gives majorities and elections to those who haven’t earned them. These prove that the majority of Americans wishes are not always fairly represented by the Electoral College