The Pros And Cons Of The Electoral College

“Electors aren’t officially picked until election day. When voters go to the polls, they’re actually casting ballots for their party’s slate of electors, rather than a presidential candidate. And the statewide popular-vote winner determines which party sends its slate to the Electoral College.” (Cheney) What this statement means is that voters, they are choosing which party and presidential candidate they favor, but their vote actually goes out to the Electoral College. However, voters do not vote for a specific elector, they just vote which party they are affiliated with. The popular vote is just as important as the Electoral College vote, but it does not determine the outcome. Fundamentally, the popular vote is just to see how many voters favor which presidential candidate the most. “Democratic and Republican state parties nominate their own slates of electors-some as early as the spring and others as late as October. In many states, elector candidates are picked at congressional district and state conventions, when local activists also pick their delegates to the national convention.” (Cheney) Electors are not chosen by the general population, and they are also not chosen by the state’s general population from which state they represent. The electors have to attend these state conventions to be chosen by which state party

Since Texas is one of the biggest states in the country, and it has a seemingly never-ending population growth due to the surge of innumerable jobs and illegal immigration. The bigger the state’s population, the more of the electors that state will have. With Texas having the lowest popular vote turnout, it may have an impact on the number of electors in the state. If the low voting turnout keeps dropping due to people not voting by the next several elections, then the 38 electoral votes may also drop to a low