Point: Abolishing The Electoral College By Frank Kuchar

The first article “Why the Electoral College” by Frank Kuchar, published March 10, 2016, illustrates the advantages of the Electoral College rather then that of a direct popular vote adding that abolishing the already existing system and replacing it with a direct popular vote would change the entire U.S. government system. While in the other article “Point: Abolishing the Electoral College” by Benjamin Bolinger, published in 2007, illustrates the authors argument in favor of abolishing the Electoral College thinking that it would allow for the election of a president through a popular vote that most closely reflects the will of the American people. The Electoral College system of electing a President and Vic-President is an outdated system

One of the main reasons is that America today is vastly different than when the Electoral College was created. There are a lot more states, a lot more voters, and citizens nowadays somewhat have the necessary education and/or access to information to make better-informed decisions. Some states are grossly overrepresented in the Electoral College, leaving the votes of some citizens counting more higher then other votes. In Electoral College a candidate could still be elected to be president even without winning the popular vote. It also reinforces the two party system leaving voters to pick from the lesser of two evils and alienating the chance for a third party system from

Frank bring up the topic of weather the citizens could be trusted with a direct election and agreeing with Elbridge Gerry statement that “The people are uninformed, and would be misled by a few designing men.”(KUCHAR) using the example of “Consider the ignorance of so many voters as evidenced in many of the “man on the street” interviews on the Internet and television and we can see how our current process is abysmal.”(KUCHAR) to explain his reasoning for agreeing with Elbridge. While this could be the case it could be argued that Americans now a days have the necessary education and/or have access to make informed decisions. Electoral college helps contribute to the political stability of the nation by encouraging mainly the existence of a two party system and while it also reinforces the two party system it leaving voters to pick sometimes pick from the lesser of two evils and though not unheard of third party system are usually alienating by the other two party’s along with most states passing their electoral votes on a winner-take-all base, the smaller third party usually has no chance of gaining support without taking support from a major party. I personally disagree with Frank that the Electoral College should