The following five reasons to keep the Electoral College are used by its defenders. The most important is that we.
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Leaving aside the fact that a deal is a deal there are very practical reasons why we will always need the Electoral College under our current constitutional system.
Why keep the electoral college. The Electoral College is widely regarded as an anachronism a nondemocratic method of selecting a president that ought to be superseded by declaring the candidate who receives the most popular. Why Is It Important to Keep the Electoral College. The Founding Fathers created the Electoral College as a compromise between electing the president via a vote in Congress only or via a popular vote only.
Each state is allowed one elector for each Representative and Senator DC is allowed 3 electors as established by the Twenty-Third Amendment. First of all if we had a pure popular vote system as many on the Left are now proposing it would become quite difficultbecause. Americas election systems have operated smoothly for more than 200 years because the Electoral College accomplishes its intended purposes.
The perversity of the design of the Electoral College is that a state gets the same number of electoral votes regardless of turnout in elections and regardless of how much voter suppression it engages in. The Electoral College is widely known as a winner take all system because the winner of the popular vote in each state gets all of the states electoral votes. A key argument to keep the Electoral College is that the process is integral to Americas federalist philosophy.
The Electoral College comprises 538 electors. The Electoral College increases election manageability. The Electoral College was never intended to be the perfect system for picking the president says George Edwards III emeritus political science professor at Texas AM University.
Prager University went to some colleges and talked with students and most of the students changed their mind to support the Electoral College after reading the three reasons we need the Electoral College. The Electoral College creates the opportunity for elections to be stolen The fact that all it took was few public officials devoid of any respect for democracy to potentially overrule an entire. Americas presidential election process preserves.
The first reason that the founders created the Electoral College is hard to understand today. Why do we keep the Electoral. One of the electoral colleges purposes is to broaden the presidents mandate and agenda by forcing candidates to appeal to different parts of the country and not just rack up votes in one.
Well there is at least one practical reason why the system should stay as it is according to Judge Richard Posner. In sum the Electoral College is an essential part of America Many young people are against the Electoral College. The first purpose was to create a buffer between the population and the selection of a President.
There are some practical benefits to the Electoral College. There are five reasons to retain the Electoral College despite its lack of democratic pedigree. Reasons to Keep the Electoral College The electoral college was originally in place by the founding fathers in order to have enlightened and respectable citizens as elected by the state to represent and vote on the president and vice president.
All are practical reasons not liberal or conservative positions. This is especially problematic because states are allowed to determine their own methods and equipment for voting. The second as part of the structure of the government that gave extra power to the smaller states.
The Electoral College protects that diversity and ensures that all voters matter not just those who reside in urban areas or states. The Electoral College was created for two reasons. Aside from the fact that there are valid and practical reasons for the Electoral College system there are other pragmatic reasons for maintaining the status quo.
Due to the Electoral College process candidates must get votes from multiple stateslarge and smallthus helping to ensure that the president will address the needs of the entire country. Counting votes in a country with nearly 327 million people is a daunting task. The Electoral College prevents run-off elections so it produces a clear winner.