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The Electoral College is the responsible source of the unjust voting system in the United States today. In my senior year of high school, my teacher demonstrated me which the Electoral College discourages many Americans from voting, and it mocks the thought of “one gentleman, one political election. ” My spouse and i wrote a great essay about the Electoral College entitled “We Need to Rid Ourselves of the Electoral College. inches My opinion was and still would be that the Electoral School is in need of mending. With each state having different levels of electoral votes, candidates are prone to persuade the states with larger amounts of electoral ballots than other states with smaller amounts. Worse, the Electoral College means that a presidential candidate can easily have the most of votes, but that prospect can still reduce. This specifically discourages independent or other candidates who wish to run for President. I think that the out-of-date Electoral College takes the voting electric power from the people’s hands and it must be taken away.
When the Electoral College or university was first implement in 1787, it was justified. The population in those days had similar opinions and preferences, the thing that was good for the majority of a state was considered great for the entire state. Hand-vote keeping track of was likewise difficult at the start of the Electoral College, and votes staying eliminated with the state level made counting much easier and more reliable. Nevertheless , in 100 years, America has changed quite a lot. To argue now that the majority of any state has got the same choice would be difficult to support.
The current Electoral College unjustly awards electoral votes based upon a winner-take-all method. The candidate that gets the most of votes within a state gets all of that california’s electors. Whether or not forty-nine percent of a express votes Liberal and the other fifty-one percent votes Conservative, the Republican side will get all of that says electoral ballots. This means that many votes obtain eliminated on the state level, which causes an incredible number of votes to become uncounted. This can be frustrating in my opinion because there would almost be no point in voting to get a candidate who is obviously not going to get the vast majority vote.
The winner-take-all method undoubtedly discourages and eliminates alternative party candidates. For instance , if an self-employed candidate gets as much as thirty percent of a california’s votes, chances are that that candidate will not get a single electoral vote. Within my high school dissertation, I composed about persistent presidential prospect Ross Perot who received twenty-nine percent of the popular vote in America, but received no electoral votes.
Voting electric power in every single state slows the selection and its turn out. Smaller populated states obtain relatively even more voting electric power than greater states. This is because electoral votes are not given away based on the population of each condition. States that contain a small populace are in possession of a lot of electoral votes. For example , even though the state of North Dakota has a noticeably smaller inhabitants than Wy, both of these declares have the same volume of electoral ballots. If someone were to live and political election in North Dakota, all their vote will not be well worth as much as somebody who lives and votes in Wyoming. It is rather difficult to justify that several Americans have an overabundance presidential voting power than other Americans.
I believe the fact that best way to solve the Electoral College should be to eliminate it entirely. It should be changed by a immediate or popular vote. However, the Electoral College is in the Constitution and, in order for it to get eliminated, a constitutional amendment would be essential. Eliminating the Electoral School would also result in the decrease of some states’ voting electricity, so it can be difficult to get the majority of express legislatures to approve a great amendment. Nevertheless , if we decide to fix the Electoral College, which I offer in my essay, we could seperated electoral votes proportionally. For instance , if applicant A will get thirty percent of any state’s ballots, and candidate B obtains seventy percent of that same california’s votes, and this is in a state with ten electoral votes, then prospect A could receive 3 electoral votes and applicant B could receive several. This would imply that nobody’s election would be taken away at the express level, third party or independent candidates can be encouraged to perform for President, and it might be up-to-date and consistent with the quote “One gentleman, one vote” and the cosmetic. I hope that in the near future, essential changes will probably be made in so that it will make the Us a better example of democracy, especially in the most important political election of this great nation, the presidential one. With much needed changes, the Electoral school will not contradict but rather support the Preamble of the United States Constitution as well as democracy:
“We the People of the United States, to be able to form a more perfect Union, establish Rights, insure domestic Tranquility, give the common protection, promote the typical Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and create this Cosmetic for the usa of America. “
