Persuasive Essay On The Electoral College

To Dan Newhouse,

Although some people say the electoral college is best for the public, it is actually putting chains on their opinions. Many people would say that the founding fathers made the electoral college because it was the best way to vote in their time. But what they don’t realise is that the electoral college is outdated, we have more people, and technology now, and that allows everyone to vote. That is why the electoral college should be stopped, so the chains that keep the citizens opinion’s down are broken.

The electoral college has made the popular vote ineffective since 1980, when every state had a big enough population to affect the popular vote. Every election hundreds of thousands of people vote for who they think would be the best president for the public, but they are overridden by the electoral college. Many people and websites agree to this, one of them is www.procon.org. They said that, “Modern technology allows voters to get necessary information to make informed decisions in a way that could not have been foreseen by the Founding Fathers.” Now that we have the internet, and other ways to get information we don’t need the electoral college, it is just chaining our opinions down.

After all the actual voting is left to the state representatives of each state. Although they are supposed to do what the citizens of their states want, they are still independent in their opinions, and choices. There are times that representatives of state have gone against the citizens opinions for better, or worse. These events were recalled in the website, http://www.fairvote.org and it said that, “ Since the founding of the Electoral College, there have been 167 faithless electors.” These faithless electors went against their states opinion and voted for another party, proving once again that the electoral college is a flawed