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Why Do We Have The Electoral College System

The Electoral College was created for two reasons. If the general citizenrys lack of knowledge had been the real reason for the.

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Malcolm Kenyatta a Pennsylvania state legislator who served as a presidential elector in 2020 has seen the system from the inside and thinks it needs to change.

Why do we have the electoral college system. The modern Electoral College may not be exactly what the Founders intended but it fits the spirit of their decentralized federal system which treats states as more than just administrative arms of a national majority. The Electoral College is working exactly as the Founders intended to ensure a president is elected by a diverse group of voters from every individual state across the United States. That answer lies in the history of.

The same number of representatives and senators from each state. The Electoral College protects that diversity and ensures that all voters matter not just those who reside in urban areas or states. So we maintain the electoral college to defend the interests of individual smaller states even though the original purpose of the system no longer exists.

Small States Get Equal Voice The Electoral College helps give rural states with lower populations an equal voice. The de facto abolition of the Electoral College might make presidential selection easier for some to comprehend. The National Popular Vote would finally eliminate the false premise that the Electoral College was meant to protect small states.

Just because one side or the other doesnt approve of the outcome doesnt mean the Electoral College system. The system can deny victory to a person who wins the popular vote as it has five times in our history or at the least it may make any election seem decisive -- a candidate can win by 100 electoral votes even if the popular vote may be less than. The Electoral College system is laid out in the Constitution and was envisioned by the founders as a system of voting in a time when there was little mass media when many Americans would not have access to much information about the candidates.

The point of the Electoral College is to preserve the sense of the people while at the same time ensuring that a president is chosen by men most capable of analyzing the qualities adapted to. The Electoral College was created as a bulwark a barrier between the people and the vote for the president. One way to understand what the Electoral College is by the way is that its a replica of Congress in its composition.

The Electoral College is made up of 538 electors who cast votes to decide the President and Vice-President of the United States. It is the 12th Amendments Electoral College system not the Philadelphia Framers that remains in place today. Why does it exist at all.

Today the Electoral College system is very controversial leading many people to ask. Americas election systems have operated smoothly for more than 200 years because the Electoral College accomplishes its intended purposes. The Electoral College is the result of a series of compromises struck during the grueling Constitutional Convention of 1787.

When voters go to the polls on Tuesday they will be choosing which candidate receives their states electors. The founders feared giving people too much power so. In response they created the Electoral College system as a process to insulate the selection of the president from the whims of the public.

The second as part of the structure of the government that gave extra power to the smaller states. The first purpose was to create a buffer between the population and the selection of a President. The Electoral College also stands against the concentration of.

Reasons include the complexity of the electoral systems design the tendency of political parties to elevate partisan advantage above democratic values the difficulty of passing constitutional amendments and importantly the Souths prolonged backing of the Electoral College grounded in its desire to preserve white supremacy in the region. In fact our system reduces a presidential election to a few. The party in power typically benefits from the existence of the Electoral College says Edwards and the minority party has little chance of changing the system because a constitutional amendment.

Its that committee which comes up with the design of the Electoral College which with modifications is then adopted by the entire convention. The first reason that the founders created the Electoral College is hard to understand today.

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