Electoral College Should Be Banned Essay

What is the electoral college? Why was it created? Should it be banned? The Pros and Cons. All of these questions are important towards the electoral college because there are people in the world who doesn’t understand what the electoral college is or even what it does. The books definition of the electoral college is the name given to the body of representatives elected by voters in each state to elect the president and vice president. I know for myself I thought the electoral college was just a vote from cities with college in them so they would take the college students vote. It seemed logical to me at the moment until I enrolled into American Government and it gave me more of an insight on the electoral college and how it is used.

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electoral college is a system set up for the presidential candidates to win the states vote even though they didn't win the popular vote of that specific state. In my personal opinion I believe that it is a scam within the government. These people of the electoral college are all apart of their own electoral party weather they are a democrat, republican, or liberal and I feel as though they might make biased decisions based on their own beliefs to elect the next president of the United States of America. Throughout this paper I will refer to two articles that I have found based upon the electoral college and information from the textbook that will help me explain my point as to why the electoral college should be banned.
I believe as though the electoral college should be banned for many reasons.

If each state has elected officials to make the decision for them why is it so important for the people to go out and vote when our vote the “popular vote” basically gets overlooked. The popular vote is a vote made by majority of the people or as some may call it, the peoples favorite candidate. In the article “Is the Electoral College System Still the Best Mechanism for Electing U.S. Presidents?” Richard Lempert states that “ if democracy means the majority rules, the electoral college is an undemocratic institution, Twice in the last five elections it has delivered the White House to the loser of the popular.” Meaning though these candidates lost by our opinion they won through the electoral college for whatever reason. It continues to state that “In 2000 it gave the Nation George W. Bush, Two weeks ago it gave us Donald Trump, although [Hillary] Clinton will most likely have a more than 2 million vote edge among those who cast ballots.” (Lempert, 2017) Hillary Clinton had the popular vote in majority of the states but due to the electoral college the presidency was handed over to Donald Trump, who we know as a racist individual due to his acts he have shown over time. He wanted to “build a wall” to keep hispanics or foreigners out of the United States when his wife first lady Melania Trump is from a foreign country as well. My personal viewing on Trump is that he a joke and shouldn’t have won

presidency but due to some republicans known to be racist and some men hating the thought of a woman being in office Donald Trump won the 2016 presidency.
The popular vote would be more efficient as to selecting president because of the fact that it’s the peoples vote.

Though many may not know much about politics we could learn and when a candidate is interested in fixing the problems not only in the world but in individual communities you are able to tell the difference between the candidates that actually care and the ones that are full of crap. But stated in the article “ How the Electoral College System Works” that form of election process wasn’t efficient along with many others such as selection by Congress, by the governors of the States, by the State legislatures, and by a special group of Members of Congress. As I believe when one thing doesn’t work you should try to figure out what the initial problem is and fix the problem instead of throwing it off to the next group of individuals. Everyone deserves a voice and everyone vote should matter my shouldn’t just left upon a group of strangers passing bias opinion on a candidate just because he or she is a republican or democrat or based upon someones

gender.
To win the electoral college vote you must atleast win 270 votes out of 538, the chosen electors meet in December to vote upon the electoral college after the general election has closed. As stated in the textbook “the number of electors is based on the number of members in congress- 435 in the House of Representatives, 100 in the Senate- plus 3 electors who represent the District of Columbia.(Harrison,2015)”