Should Electoral College Be Changed

Senator,

There should be some changes to make with the Presidential voting process. The Electoral College process has worked in the past, but now the time has come to go a different route, with the Popular Vote or something similar to it. The way the popular vote sways will be the way of the people of America’s decision not the elected members.

One reason the Electoral College process should be changed is the fact that you as a voter are not actually voting for a president, you’re electing people that will decide who your state’s electoral votes will go to. In Paragraph 5 of Source 1: What is the Electoral College? The author states, “Each candidate in your state has his or her own group of electors. Each elector is generally chosen by each candidate’s political party, but state laws vary on how an elector is

If you’re in a larger, more highly populated state such as Texas, California, or Florida, the candidate that wins your state will receive more electoral votes then he or she would if they won a state that is tremendously smaller, for instance, Maine or Rhode Island. Paragraph 10 of Sources 2 also states, “If you lived in Texas, for instance, and wanted to vote for [John] Kerry, you’d vote for a slate of 34 democratic electors pledged to Kerry. On the off-chance those electors won the statewide election, they would go to congress and cast 34 electoral votes to Kerry.” This confirms that a larger state has more say or more power over a smaller one. Paragraph 21 of Source 3: In defense of the Electoral College: Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the President, states “The popular vote in Florida [in 2012]; Nevertheless Obama, who won that vote, got 29 electoral votes. A victory by the same margin in Wyoming would net the winner only 3 electoral votes.” This proves how uneven the voting is, [previously stated] larger states get more votes so they get more