Opposition of the Electoral College

With technology making advances in media and making its way into our government to convey messages in our world. Working its way into our voting system to due away with the seemingly outdated Electoral College. The Electoral College has provided to be rather confusing and also unfair to those who do not seem to fully grasp the concept. For an earlier time the Electoral College was a great way to reduce time on counting votes for each individual state. The way the Electoral College seems unfair. The most recent election Texas gave 36 Electoral college votes for Trump while California gave 55 for Clinton. The size and population of a state can determine the number of votes, but the Electoral College is not a very good representation of the general public opinion. Hillary Clinton won the Popular Vote but with the electoral college being given to Trump he won the presidency. The System is flawed for the new times. George Bush won the Electoral College but caused an uproar when Al Gore had the popular vote. Same can be said for Trump winning the Electoral College. Barack Obama made way with both of the Electoral and Popular vote in both elections. Overall the argument is that the popular vote is a better representation of the overall population of the United States of America. Due away with the fixed system of the Electoral College and represent the general population and make it easier for voters to understand and have it seem to where the votes actually matter and not have it seem generic.  

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  1. Mitzi ChavezMay 11, 2017 at 7:41 AM

    Joshua, I do have to agree with you on this topic - the electoral college voting system is absolutely outdated and confusing.

    The first, of many, problems that the electoral college has is that it does not accurately represent the general population, aka those of which whom matter the most. The whole point behind the way our government is structured is to include the people's wants and needs, not to have a fixed system where citizens don't get either of those things. Another problem you mentioned is that the number of states per vote are not equally dispersed between the states. Although size and and population can and should determine the number of votes, this still is not an accurate way to determine what we, as citizens, need. The reasoning behind this is that states are different sizes - meaning that in small states compared to larger states, votes matter more. This changes the value behind each vote, which completely throws off the system. Because of this, if you want your vote to contain more value, you must move to a smaller state. This obviously was not properly thought out by the creators of the Electoral College. Yet another flaw of this voting system is merely that this is a winner-tale-all system. A potential president can absolutely win the popular vote, but then lose in the Electoral College and thus lose their presidency for that term. How is this fair at all? This has happened on a couple of occasions, most notably with Al Gore. How can we let someone be president when they lost the vote of actual citizens? The popular vote, as you also mentioned, is undeniably a better representation of what the general population wants.

    Although there hasn't exactly been a new system in place to replace the current one, I think that America should really start looking for one. We need a voting system where US Citizens, those who pay taxes and abide by the laws, are accurately represented when voting for their president.

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