Noura Gomaa

10/23/16
Government (Electoral College)

Presidents are not elected based on the popularity of votes each candidate
has, but instead they are selected based on a system called The Electoral College.
The Electoral College is a system where each state gets a certain number of
Electoral Votes and the president is elected based on how many votes he or she
gets. The candidates have to have at least 270 Electoral Votes to be elected
president. This system was created by the founder in order to make the votes of
states with the least population count. Their goal was to make everyone opinion
count in the election.
Now you might be reading this and thinking that this is a great system that
makes everybody's votes count equally, but in this case, that is not entirely true.
The Electoral College only serves in favor of the small states making their opinion
worth more than the states with the most population like New York and California.
That is not civil because the Electoral College gives more votes to states with the
least population than they actually deserve. According to the video “The Trouble
with the Electoral College,” it shows how states like Ohio with 11,500.00 people
deserve 20 electoral votes but instead the receive 18 votes. The other two votes go
to states like a long island which only have 7.568 million people. The way the
electoral votes are given out is completely unfair because all they do is take votes
from states with the most population and give it to states with the least population.
This makes a huge difference in the election because if the states with the most
population want candidate A but a lot of people from the smaller states want
candidate B, candidate B would most likely win the election because he or she has
more electoral votes from the smaller states. This makes each vote from the
smaller states count more than the vote from the bigger states which is completely
unacceptable and unreasonable.
The Electoral College should be abolished because in certain situations the
election is given to the House Of Representative and they get to make the final
decision on who becomes president. The article, “Arguments Against The
Electoral College,” states, “...or else, absent an absolute majority in the Electoral
College, the U.S. House of Representative would select the president in accordance
with the 12th Amendment…” This is not a democracy because the whole point of a
presidential election is to have people vote for the president but the Electoral
College violates that. The reason being is that if the two candidates have the same
amount of electoral votes or have less than 270 the congress then picks who
becomes president. That means that in certain elections people's votes wouldn't
count because the final decision would be made by the House Of Representatives.
This is completely not fair to the people of the United States which is why the
Electoral College should be abolished.
On the other hand, some people believe that the Electoral College is a
completely fair way of choosing who becomes president. Document C states,
“...the Electoral College makes sure that the states count in the presidential
elections. As such, it is an important part of our federalist system, a system worth
preserving.” Document C basically says that the Electoral College makes every
state's votes and opinions count equally and that it should continue to go on and
never be abolished, but is the Electoral College really a fair way of picking who
becomes the next president? Document D states, “The Electoral College violates
political equality. It not a neutral counting device…it favors some citizens over
others, depending solely upon the states in which voters cast their votes for
president…” This shows that the Electoral College does not consider certain votes
as important as others. This is not reasonable because all votes should be equally
important and one vote should never count more than another depending on which
states the vote was cast in.
The Electoral College is a system that isn't as far as it looks. It might seem
like it makes all votes count equally but in reality, it really doesn't. The Electoral
College gives more votes to states that have a smaller population and that is not
fair to all the states with the most population. The electoral vote should be given
based on the population of each state. If the state has a small population they
should receive a small number of Electoral Votes. If the states have a huge
population they should receive more Electoral Votes. This is a completely fair way
for the people to actually pick who becomes their next president. The Electoral
College should be completely abolished or at least given out based on how many
votes each state has.