Why We Should Abolish The Electoral College

For hundreds of years, the United States has chosen their presidents by using the electoral college system. However, many people, including me, find that this system isn’t completely fair. Over many of the past decades, citizens of the United States have made movements to get rid of the electoral college, yet none of these efforts have proven effective. I believe that we should abolish the electoral college because the system goes against a democracy, a candidate can lose the popular vote and still become president, and the electors aren’t required to vote for the candidate that the people chose. Although we, the United States, have used the electoral college system for hundreds of years, we should get rid of it because the electoral college goes against a democracy. According to the Merriam Webster dictionary, a democracy is defined as “a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people” (Merriam-Webster). With the electoral college, the citizens’ votes don’t go directly towards the election of the president. With that being said, the electoral college also takes away the one person- one vote aspect of the democracy that we have here in the United States. The electoral college takes away our ability to

One of the main problems with the electoral college is that the citizens votes don’t always matter to the electors. The way the electoral college works is that the normal citizens put in their vote for their desired candidate. However, these votes don’t count directly towards the presidential election, but they actually vote for a “slate of electors” (“The Indefensible Electoral College”, Bradford Plumer). The wicked twist is that these electors don’t necessarily have to vote for the candidate that the citizens wanted and voted towards. To me, this comes off as dishonest, untruthful, and