In the constitutional convention of 1787, our nation's founding fathers came together to come up with a method to elect a president at a time when the majority of Americans couldn’t make an educated decision when voting so Electors who trusted with the responsibility to represent their state and make an informed choice. Our founding fathers came up with an indirect method, the Electoral College, which proved successful by allowing Americans to choose their state representatives and senators who would represent their vote and through a majority choose a president-elect. Through the electoral college, each state gets two senators and a varied number of state representatives depending on the population of their state that the people vote for themselves …show more content…
They believe that it would be a hassle trying to reform what our founding fathers envisioned from the start and could cause political fragmentation in an already very divided two-party system. Supports of the Electoral college also believe the Electoral College proves to be crucial to supporting our nation's two-party system which proves to be the most effective in providing the nation with a majority popular vote (Kimberling). They believe that changing our Electoral College system would lead to issues that as recounts that could delay results during elections for weeks or months and undermine the federalist principles that our forefathers founded our nation upon …show more content…
On the other hand there are those who wish to abolish the Electoral College and label this action as “past its due date”. These people argue that it is no longer effective in a nation where media presents us with the information needed to make informed decisions. These critics argue that it presents unequal and unfair representation of the people and individual states by not always being representative of the popular vote and place the final vote in the hands of only a select amount of elected officials. The most significant aspect to be considered by the American people is whether or not the Electoral College is still efficient in the mass media influenced society and ever changing world we live in today in order to decide whether the system our forefathers created for us needs to update, is outdated, or a fair representation of the American