The Pros And Cons Of The Electoral College

Many people are not satisfied with the way a president is chosen in the United States. There are two systems of voting that are shown during the election, popular vote, and electoral college. The system that is used to elect the next president is the electoral college. People believe that popular vote should be the way the president should be chosen since it involves the whole citizens of the United States. This is due to the controversy people have given to the electoral college. This controversy is centered around the idea that the electoral college was used to take power away from larger states. Popular vote is, by no means, the better system since it has flaws of its own like giving large states more power. Due to certain disqualifying

One of these is that the election could come down to a dead lock, if this happens the electoral votes decide the election anyway, if the college is also split it then falls on the two houses of congress to elect the president. The senate is.charged with choosing our vice president each state gets a vote and the winner was then the elected vice president. Similarly, the house of representatives is charged with electing the president. In the event, there has been no president elected by the house before inauguration day then the vice president elect takes office as the president until the house elects the president. There are other reasons that they used the system we are currently using they are mostly outdated because they must do with a time when there were not just two major and well defined political parties. Every state or even region was likely to nominate their own candidate and it made the founding fathers were afraid that the people may accidently elect a person that they didn't really know much about and that was unsuitable for office. Though it is explained in McCollister essay, that without the electoral college it could mean that “would be destroy the two-party system” which wasn’t the “intention of the Founding Fathers, but is just the consequence of the electoral college”. Without modern technology, it would make it hard for the people to really know who they had voted for. This is somewhat not true anymore, there are possibly candidates that people don't know much about but since the advent of radio, television, and now even the internet people are much more well informed than they were in the 1700's. If you don't know what you need to know about a candidate or what he/she stands for then it’s easy to come by that information. The tricky part is determining if the source providing the information you receive is